Summons; defendant's failure to appear · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 130.50 Summons; defendant's failure to appear.
If after the service of a summons the defendant does not appear in the designated local criminal court or superior court at the time such summons is returnable, the court may issue a warrant of arrest.
If a properly served defendant fails to appear in the designated court at the summons’s return time, the court may issue an arrest warrant. ★
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.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.