Appearance ticket; defendant's failure to appear · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 150.60 Appearance ticket; defendant's failure to appear.
If after the service of an appearance ticket and the filing of a local criminal court accusatory instrument charging the offense designated therein, the defendant does not appear in the designated local criminal court at the time such appearance ticket is returnable, the court may issue a summons or a warrant of arrest based upon the local criminal court accusatory instrument filed.
If a defendant who received an appearance ticket does not appear in the named local criminal court at the ticket’s return time, after the matching accusatory instrument has been filed, the court may issue a summons or an arrest warrant based on that instrument. ★
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.