N.Y. Legislative Law § 2: Exemption of members and officers from arrest

§ 2. Exemption of members and officers from arrest. A member of the

legislature shall be privileged from arrest in a civil action or

proceeding other than for a forfeiture or breach of trust in public

office or employment, while attending upon its session, and for fourteen

days before and after each session, or while absent for not more than

fourteen days during the session with the leave of the house of which he

is a member.

An officer of either house shall be privileged from arrest in such a

civil action or proceeding while in actual attendance upon the house.

Either house shall have the power to discharge from arrest any of its

members or officers arrested in violation of his privilege from arrest.