§ 177-D — Special narcotics parts; procedure

§ 177-d. Special narcotics parts; procedure. Notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law,\n (i) a narcotics indictment returned in any county within such cities\nmay be prosecuted in the special narcotics part to which it is assigned\npursuant to section one hundred seventy-seven-b irrespective of the\ncounty in which the part is held and in which the crime charged was\ncommitted;\n (ii) any assistant district attorney appointed pursuant to the plan\nauthorized by section one hundred seventy-seven-c may prosecute all\noffenses cognizable by any special narcotics part irrespective of the\ncounty in which the part is held and in which the crime charged was\ncommitted; and\n (iii) upon the application of the assistant district attorney in\ncharge of the special narcotics parts appointed pursuant to the plan\nauthorized by section one hundred seventy-seven-c, one or more grand\njuries may be drawn and impaneled for a special narcotics part upon the\norder of the justice assigned to such part, which grand jury may\nexercise all the powers of a grand jury in the county in which it is\nimpaneled and may in addition exercise its powers with respect to the\nalleged commission of an offense in any county wholly contained in a\ncity having a population of one million or more involving the sale or\npossession of a narcotic drug and any other offense that could be\nproperly joined therewith in an indictment.\n