Correction Law § 705

Forms and filing · as in force on May 31, 2026

§ 705. Forms and filing. 1. All applications, certificates and orders of revocation necessary for the purposes of this article shall be upon forms prescribed pursuant to agreement among the state commissioner of corrections and community supervision, the chairman of the state board of parole and the administrator of the state judicial conference. Such forms relating to certificates of relief from disabilities shall be distributed by the office of probation and correctional alternatives and forms relating to certificates of good conduct shall be distributed by the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision.

2. Any court or department issuing or revoking any certificate pursuant to this article shall immediately file a copy of the certificate, or of the order of revocation, with the New York state identification and intelligence system.

Official sourcehttps://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/COR/705

In plain English

Certificates and revocations must use coordinated official forms and be filed promptly:

(1) Applications, certificates, and revocation orders must use forms agreed on by the named corrections, parole, and judicial officials. The probation office distributes disability-certificate forms; the corrections commissioner distributes good-conduct-certificate forms.
(2) An issuing or revoking court or department must immediately file a copy of the certificate or revocation order with the New York State Identification and Intelligence System. ★

Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.

In print

This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 6 — The Court Clerk: Uniform Rules and Everything Else; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.