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JUD - Judiciary
Article 20 - Collection of Fines
795 - Liability of Sheriff for Omission of Duty.
Universal Citation: NY Jud L § 795 (2018)
§ 795. Liability of sheriff for omission of duty. An action may be maintained, in behalf of the people, against a sheriff, to whom a warrant is directed and delivered, as prescribed in this article, to recover damages for any omission of duty with respect to the same, in a case where a judgment creditor might maintain an action against a sheriff, to whom an execution issued out of the supreme court is directed and delivered. In such an action, the people are entitled to recover the same damages, which a judgment creditor would be entitled to recover, if the order imposing the fine was a judgment of the supreme court.
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