N.Y. Family Court Act § 155-a: Admission to bail

§ 155-a. Admission to bail. A desk officer in charge at a police

station, county jail or police headquarters, or any of his or her

superior officers, may, in such place, take cash bail for his or her

appearance before the appropriate court the next morning from any person

arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by the family court; provided that

such arrest occurs between eleven o'clock in the morning and eight

o'clock the next morning, except that in the city of New York bail shall

be taken between two o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock the next

morning. The amount of such cash bail shall be the amount fixed in the

warrant of arrest.