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N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law § 700.50: Eavesdropping and video surveillance warrants; progress reports and notice

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  1. Criminal Procedure Law
  2. Part 3. Special Proceedings and Miscellaneous Procedures
  3. Title T. Procedures For Securing Evidence By Means of Court Order and For Sup- Pressing Evidence Unlawfully or Improperly Obtained
  4. Article 700. Eavesdropping and Video Surveillance Warrants

§ 700.50 Eavesdropping and video surveillance warrants; progress

reports and notice.

1. An eavesdropping or video surveillance warrant may require reports

to be made to the issuing justice showing what progress has been made

toward achievement of the authorized objective and the need for

continued eavesdropping or video surveillance. Such reports shall be

made at such intervals as the justice may require.

2. Immediately upon the expiration of the period of an eavesdropping

or video surveillance warrant, the recordings of communications or

observations made pursuant to subdivision three of section 700.35 must

be made available to the issuing justice and sealed under his

directions.

3. Within a reasonable time, but in no case later than ninety days

after termination of an eavesdropping or video surveillance warrant, or

expiration of an extension order, except as otherwise provided in

subdivision four, written notice of the fact and date of the issuance of

the eavesdropping or video surveillance warrant, and of the period of

authorized eavesdropping or video surveillance, and of the fact that

during such period communications were or were not intercepted or

observation were or were not made, must be served upon the person named

in the warrant and such other parties to the intercepted communications

or subjects of the video surveillance as the justice may determine in

his discretion is in the interest of justice. Service reasonably

calculated to give affected parties the notice required by this

subdivision shall be effected within the time limits provided for herein

and in a manner prescribed by the justice. The justice, upon the filing

of a motion by any person served with such notice, may in his discretion

make available to such person or his counsel for inspection such

portions of the intercepted communications or video surveillance,

applications and warrants as the justice determines to be in the

interest of justice.

4. On a showing of exigent circumstances to the issuing justice, the

service of the notice required by subdivision three may be postponed by

order of the justice for a reasonable period of time. Renewals of an

order of postponement may be obtained on a new showing of exigent

circumstances.

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