Section 310.50. Verdict; form; reconsideration of defective verdict

1.    The  form  of the verdict must be in accordance with the court's
  instructions, as prescribed in article three hundred.
    2.  If the jury renders a verdict which in form is not  in  accordance
  with  the  court's instructions or which is otherwise legally defective,
  the court must explain the defect or error and must direct the  jury  to
  reconsider  such  verdict,  to resume its deliberation for such purpose,
  and to render a proper verdict.   If the jury persists  in  rendering  a
  defective  or  improper  verdict, the court may in its discretion either
  order that the verdict in its entirety as to any defendant  be  recorded
  as an acquittal, or discharge the jury and authorize the people to retry
  the  indictment  or  a  specified  count  or  counts  thereof as to such
  defendant; provided that if it is clear that the jury intended to find a
  defendant not guilty upon any particular count,  the  court  must  order
  that the verdict be recorded as an acquittal of such defendant upon such
  count.
    3.  If the court accepts a verdict which is defective or incomplete by
  reason  of  the jury's failure to render a verdict upon every count upon
  which it was instructed to do so, such verdict is deemed  to  constitute
  an acquittal upon every such count improperly ignored in the verdict.
    4.  In  a  prosecution  involving a charge of enterprise corruption in
  violation of article four hundred sixty of the penal law, the jury  must
  separately and specifically render a special verdict with regard to each
  criminal   act  and  any  lesser  included  offense  submitted  for  its
  consideration as a part of a pattern of criminal activity in addition to
  its verdict on the charge of enterprise corruption. In the absence of  a
  unanimous  special  verdict  of  guilty  with regard to each of at least
  three criminal acts and/or lesser included offenses  submitted  for  its
  consideration   and   legally   sufficient   to  constitute  a  person's
  participation in a pattern of criminal activity within  the  meaning  of
  subdivision  four  of  section  460.10  of the penal law, the court must
  order that the verdict on the count charging  enterprise  corruption  be
  recorded as an acquittal.