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Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTSubtitle A - Governor's OfficeChapter I - Executive Orders
Part 1 - Executive Orders (Nelson A. Rockefeller)
Section 1.9 - Executive Order No. 9: Amending the Executive Order of July 23, 1960 [No. 5] relating to special psychiatric procedures for examining prospective parolees. [*]

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 1.9

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Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024
Section 1.9 - Executive Order No. 9: Amending the Executive Order of July 23, 1960 [No. 5] relating to special psychiatric procedures for examining prospective parolees. [*]

I, NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the State of New York, and as Governor of the State of New York, do hereby direct by Executive Order that Paragraph B of the Executive Order of July 23, 1960, relating to special psychiatric procedures for examining prospective parolees, be amended to read as follows:

B. Administrative Action
(1) Establishing special psychiatric procedures:
(1)
(a) The Department of Mental Hygiene shall promptly provide appropriate staff to establish special psychiatric procedures for examining prospective parolees at the Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, at the Attica Prison in Attica, New York, and at such other correctional institutions where adequate staff can be provided and such examinations can conveniently be made.
(1)
(b) The Department of Correction shall transfer from any of the correctional institutions in the State other than Sing Sing Prison, Attica Prison and such other correctional institutions where adequate staff can be provided and such examinations can conveniently be made and make available for the special psychiatric examinations at such institutions the prospective parolees designated by the Parole Board.
(2) The Department of Correction and the Parole Board shall strengthen and extend the "service unit" program in the correctional institutions as rapidly as qualified staff can be recruited, thereby providing additional guidance, counselling and related services and strengthening the work done in preparing comprehensive evaluations of inmates for the use of the Parole Board.

Signed: Nelson A. Rockefeller

Dated: October 2, 1961

Footnotes

* [Amends Executive Order No. 5, supra.]

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 1.9

Amends Executive Order No. 5, supra.