Conditions and limitations on electronic arraignment · as in force on May 31, 2026
* § 185.30 Conditions and limitations on electronic arraignment.
Whenever a person is arraigned by means of an electronic arraignment, the following conditions and limitations shall apply:
1. The defendant may not enter a plea of guilty;
2. The electronic arraignment process may be used only when the accusatory instrument does not charge a felony;
3. No electronic recording of an electronic arraignment may be made, viewed or inspected except as may be authorized by rules of the chief administrator of the courts; and
4. Stenographic recording of the arraignment shall be made to the same extent as if it were an ordinary arraignment rather than an electronic arraignment. * NB Expired September 1, 1983
For an electronic arraignment, the defendant may not plead guilty, the accusatory instrument may not charge a felony, and no electronic recording may be made, viewed, or inspected except under the chief administrator’s rules. A stenographer must record it just as an ordinary arraignment. ★ The section is marked expired September 1, 1983.
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.