Section 155-A. Admission to bail  


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  • A  desk officer in charge at a police
      station, county jail or police  headquarters,  or  any  of  his  or  her
      superior  officers,  may,  in  such place, take cash bail for his or her
      appearance before the appropriate court the next morning from any person
      arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by the family court; provided that
      such arrest occurs between eleven  o'clock  in  the  morning  and  eight
      o'clock the next morning, except that in the city of New York bail shall
      be taken between two o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock the next
      morning.  The  amount of such cash bail shall be the amount fixed in the
      warrant of arrest.