N.Y. Correction Law Section 602
Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners

For conveying a prisoner or prisoners to a state prison from the county prison, the sheriff or person having charge of the same shall be reimbursed for the amount of expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him for railroad fare or cost of other transportation and for cost of maintenance of himself and each prisoner in going to the prison, and for his railroad fare or other cost of transportation in returning home, and cost of his maintenance while so returning. The county shall be reimbursed for a portion of the salary of such sheriff or person for the period, not to exceed thirty-six hours, from the commencement of transportation from the county prison to the return of such sheriff or person to the county prison, the amount of such reimbursement to be computed by adding to the amount of such salary the total amount of the aforesaid expenses incurred for transportation and maintenance and reducing the resulting aggregate amount, first, by fifty per centum of such aggregate amount and, second, by the total amount of the aforesaid expenses incurred for transportation and maintenance.

Source: Section 602 — Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/COR/602 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Feb. 15, 2025).

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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
Routine mammogram screenings
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Accessed:
Feb. 15, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 602’s source at nysenate​.gov

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