NY S07209

Authorizes the chief administrator of courts, after consultation with relevant stakeholders, to adopt a plan establishing off-hours arraignment parts in select local criminal courts outside New York City for conducting arraignments, preliminary proceedings, and arrest warrant returns.

Requires periodic assignment of all judges and justices from local criminal courts in affected counties to rotate through the off-hours arraignment parts, with public notice of all established parts and judicial assignments.

Permits filing of criminal accusatory instruments with local criminal courts operating off-hours arraignment parts when offenses were allegedly committed in that county.

Allows police officers to bring arrested defendants before off-hours arraignment parts in the county where the warrant is returnable or where the arrest occurred, rather than requiring return to a specific court location.

Directs courts to adjourn proceedings and continue them in off-hours parts when defendants appear without counsel and no counsel is available, unless the defendant chooses to proceed without representation.