N.Y. EXC Law § 259-P
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Interstate detention
Official statutory text
§ 259-p. Interstate detention. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision\nof law, a defendant subject to section two hundred fifty-nine-mm of this\narticle, may be detained as authorized by the interstate compact for\nadult offender supervision.\n (2) A defendant shall be detained at a local correctional facility,\nexcept as otherwise provided in subdivision three of this section.\n (3) (a) A defendant sixteen years of age or younger, who allegedly\ncommits a criminal act or violation of his or her supervision on or\nafter October first, two thousand eighteen or (b) a defendant seventeen\nyears of age or younger who allegedly commits a criminal act or\nviolation of his or her supervision on or after October first, two\nthousand nineteen, shall be detained in a juvenile detention facility.\n
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