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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 7 - (160 - 218) TRUSTEES FOR INSOLVENT AND IMPRISONED DEBTORS
174 - Penalties for connivance at escape.
NY Debt & Cred L § 174 (2012) What's This?
§ 174. Penalties for connivance at escape. Any sheriff, constable or
jailer wilfully suffering any person so committed or re-committed,
pursuant to the foregoing sections, to escape, on conviction thereof, in
addition to any other punishment the court may inflict, shall forfeit to
the trustees a sum equal to the whole amount of debts due to the
creditors of such debtor, not exceeding two thousand five hundred
dollars.
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