N.Y. COR Law § 500-J
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Who may visit local correctional facilities
Official statutory text
§ 500-j. Who may visit local correctional facilities. The following\npersons may visit at pleasure all local correctional facilities: The\ngovernor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and\nattorney-general, members of the legislature, judges of the court of\nappeals, justices of the supreme court and county judges, district\nattorneys and every clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in\nsection two of the religious corporations law, having charge of a\ncongregation in the county in which such facility is located. No other\nperson not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the\nrooms of a local correctional facility in which convicts are confined,\nunless under such regulations as the sheriff of the county, or in\ncounties within the city of New York, the commissioner of correction of\nsuch city, or in the county of Westchester, the commissioner of\ncorrection of such county shall prescribe.\n
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