N.Y. CPL Law § 570.36
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Commitment to await requisition; bail
Official statutory text
§ 570.36 Commitment to await requisition; bail.\n If from the examination before the local criminal court it appears\nthat the person held is the person charged with having committed the\ncrime alleged, and, except in cases arising under section 570.14 or\n570.16, that he has fled from justice, the local criminal court must, by\na warrant reciting the accusation, commit him to the county jail for\nsuch a time not exceeding thirty days and specified in the warrant, as\nwill enable the arrest of the accused to be made under a warrant of the\ngovernor on a requisition of the executive authority of the state having\njurisdiction of the offense, unless the accused gives bail as provided\nin the next section, or until he shall be legally discharged.\n
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