2006 New York Code - Habeas Corpus.

 
    §   1106.   Habeas  corpus.  If  it  appears,  by  affidavit,  to  the
  satisfaction of the court, that the person required to  be  produced  is
  imprisoned within the state, for any cause, except upon a sentence for a
  felony,  or  is  kept  or detained, within the state, by any person, the
  court may, either before or after making the order for production, issue
  a writ of habeas corpus to bring him before it, or before  the  referee,
  as  the  case  requires.  The  writ  must  be  served  and executed, and
  disobedience thereto may be punished, as where a writ of  habeas  corpus
  is issued, to inquire into the cause of the detention of a prisoner.