Section 611-A. Commitments to county or regional correctional institutions

1. Any commitment to  a  county  or  regional  correctional  institution
  pursuant  to  subdivision two of section 70.20 of the penal law shall be
  deemed a commitment to the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary, or to
  a penitentiary outside the county in the case of an  agreement  pursuant
  to  section four hundred eighty of this chapter, as the case may be, and
  the order of commitment shall  specify  the  institution  in  which  the
  sentence is to be served.
    2.  Nothing  in this section shall affect or limit any other provision
  of law with respect to transfers of persons so committed.