N.Y. Correction Law Section 601-C
Felony prisoners

  • reimbursement for costs
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case where a person has been convicted of a felony and a sentence has been pronounced which requires that he or she be committed to the custody of the commissioner, if such person has not been accepted for custody by the commissioner within ten business days of receipt of a written notification by the department from the appropriate local official that he or she is prepared to transport such person to the facility designated by the department, provided that there has been compliance with subdivision (a) of § 601 (Delivery of commitment with incarcerated individual)section six hundred one of this article, and provided further that such person is not in need of immediate medical care requiring the availability of a hospital or infirmary bed, then the expense of maintaining such person shall be paid by the state at the rate of one hundred dollars per day per capita, or the actual per day per capita cost as certified by the appropriate local official, whichever is less, beginning with the first day of receipt of written notification by the department.

Source: Section 601-C — Felony prisoners; reimbursement for costs, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/COR/601-C (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 21, 2025).

600
Certain correctional officers to administer oaths 600–A
Jail time records and certificates 601
Delivery of commitment with incarcerated individual 601–A
Return of persons erroneously sentenced for the purpose of resentence 601–B
Coram nobis prisoners 601–C
Felony prisoners 601–D
Post-release supervision 602
Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners 603
Rendering accounts for conveying of prisoners 604
Payment of accounts for transporting prisoners 605
Prisoners sentenced at one session of court to be transported at same time 605–A
Transportation of female incarcerated individuals 606
Payment of costs for prosecution of incarcerated individuals 607
Prohibition of double-bunked housing 610
Freedom of worship 611
Births to incarcerated individuals of correctional institutions and care of children of incarcerated individuals of correctional institut... 611–A
Commitments to county or regional correctional institutions 612
United States prisoners 613
Conveyance of prisoner after arrest 614
Care and support of civil prisoner 618
Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories 619
Cooperation with authorized agencies of the department of social services 620
Service of papers in civil judicial proceedings upon a prisoner 621
Interstate cooperation with law enforcement officers and agencies of other states and the federal government 622
Sex offender treatment program 623
Incarcerated individual telephone services 624
Next of kin 625
Menstrual products 626
Medication assisted treatment in correctional facilities 627
Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing
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Verified:
Jun. 21, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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