N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law Section 410.20
Modification or enlargement of conditions

1.

The court may modify or enlarge the conditions of a sentence of probation or of conditional discharge at any time prior to the expiration or termination of the period of the sentence. Such action may not, however, be taken unless the defendant is personally present, except that the defendant need not be present if the modification consists solely of the elimination or relaxation of one or more conditions. Whenever the defendant has not been present, the court shall notify the defendant in writing within twenty days of such modification specifying the nature of the elimination or relaxation of such condition or conditions and the effective date thereof. In any such case the modification or enlargement may be specified in the same manner as the conditions originally imposed and becomes part of the sentence.

2.

The procedure set forth in this section applies to the imposition of an additional period of conditional discharge as authorized by subdivision three of section 65.05 of the penal law.

Source: Section 410.20 — Modification or enlargement of conditions, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CPL/410.­20 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jun. 21, 2025).

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