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

§ 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.