Issuance of warrant
§ 526. Issuance of warrant. The court may issue a warrant, directing that the respondent be arrested and brought before the court, when a petition is presented to the court under section five hundred twenty-three and it appears that
(a) the summons cannot be served; or
(b) the respondent has failed to obey the summons; or
(c) the respondent is likely to leave the jurisdiction; or
(d) a summons, in the court's opinion, would be ineffectual; or
(e) the safety of the petitioner is endangered; or
(f) a respondent on bail or on parole has failed to appear.
The court may issue a warrant to arrest and bring the respondent in when: (a) the summons can't be served; (b) he failed to obey it; (c) he's likely to leave the jurisdiction; (d) a summons would be ineffectual; (e) the petitioner's safety is endangered; or (f) a respondent on bail/parole failed to appear.
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 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.