N.Y. General City Law § 93: When police matrons to reside at station houses

§ 93. When police matrons to reside at station houses. When only one

police matron is attached to a police station, she shall reside there,

or within a reasonable distance therefrom, and shall hold herself in

readiness to respond to any call therefrom at any hour of the day or

night, and each matron shall, during such hours as may be fixed by the

head of the police department, remain in such station and hold herself

in readiness to respond to any call therefrom. So long as any woman is

detained or held under arrest in a police station to which a police

matron is attached, it shall be the duty of such matron to remain

constantly thereat, ready for service; or if there be more than one

matron attached to such station, then one of them shall be constantly

ready for service. A police matron shall, subject to the officer in

charge of such station house, have the immediate care and charge of all

women held under arrest in the station to which she is attached, and she

may at any time call upon the officer in charge of such station for

assistance. She shall be subject to the authority of the board of

police, or if there be no such board, then to the chief of police in the

city where she may be appointed, and to the rules prescribed by such

authority, but at a station where she may be on duty she shall be

subject only to the authority of the officer in charge thereof.