New York Laws
Article 20 - Protection of People With Special Needs
552 - Organization of the Justice Center.

(b) The special prosecutor is empowered to apply for search warrants
pursuant to article six hundred ninety of the criminal procedure law,
and, except in exigent circumstances, shall give prior notice of the
application to the district attorney of the county in which such a
warrant is to be executed, and in such exigent circumstances shall give
such notice as soon thereafter as is practicable; provided, however that
the failure to give notice of a search warrant application to a district
attorney shall not be a ground to suppress the evidence seized in
executing the warrant. He or she may designate an assistant to exercise
any of such powers.
(c) The special prosecutor or one of his or her assistants may, after
consultation with the district attorney as to the time and place of such
attendance or appearance, attend in person any term of the county court
or supreme court having appropriate jurisdiction, including an
extraordinary special or trial term of the supreme court when one is
appointed pursuant to section one hundred forty-nine of the judiciary
law, or appear before the grand jury thereof, for the purpose of
managing and conducting in such court or before such jury a criminal
action or proceeding concerned with an offense where any conduct
constituting or requisite to the completion of or in any other manner
related to such offense involved the abuse or neglect of a vulnerable
person, as defined in subdivision eleven of section four hundred
eighty-eight of the social services law. In such case, such special
prosecutor or his or her assistant so attending may exercise all the
powers and perform all the duties in respect of such actions or
proceedings which the district attorney would otherwise be authorized or
required to exercise or perform.