500-J - Who may visit local correctional facilities.

§  500-j.  Who  may visit local correctional facilities. The following  persons may visit at pleasure all  local  correctional  facilities:  The  governor  and  lieutenant-governor,  secretary of state, comptroller and  attorney-general, members of the legislature, judges  of  the  court  of  appeals,  justices  of  the  supreme  court  and county judges, district  attorneys and every clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined  in  section  two  of  the  religious  corporations  law,  having charge of a  congregation in the county in which such facility is located.  No  other  person  not  otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the  rooms of a local correctional facility in which convicts  are  confined,  unless  under  such  regulations  as  the  sheriff  of the county, or in  counties within the city of New York, the commissioner of correction  of  such  city,  or  in  the  county  of  Westchester,  the  commissioner of  correction of such county shall prescribe.