410.20 - Modification or enlargement of conditions.

§ 410.20  Modification or enlargement of conditions.    1.    The  court may modify or enlarge the conditions of a sentence of  probation  or  of  conditional  discharge  at  any  time  prior  to  the  expiration  or  termination  of the period of the sentence.  Such action  may not, however, be taken unless the defendant is  personally  present,  except  that  the  defendant  need  not  be  present if the modification  consists solely  of  the  elimination  or  relaxation  of  one  or  more  conditions.    Whenever  the  defendant  has not been present, the court  shall notify the  defendant  in  writing  within  twenty  days  of  such  modification  specifying  the nature of the elimination or relaxation of  such condition or conditions and the effective date thereof.     In  any  such  case  the modification or enlargement may be specified in the same  manner as the conditions originally imposed  and  becomes  part  of  the  sentence.    2.   The procedure set forth in this section applies to the imposition  of an additional  period  of  conditional  discharge  as  authorized  by  subdivision three of section 65.05 of the penal law.