2016 New York Laws
DCD - Debtor & Creditor
Article 7 - (Debtor & Creditor) TRUSTEES FOR INSOLVENT AND IMPRISONED DEBTORS
174 - Penalties for connivance at escape.

NY Debt & Cred L § 174 (2016) 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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