Bill Text: NY A02954 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay for all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.214 [A02954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02954-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2954
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education
        AN  ACT  to amend the  general municipal law, in relation to authorizing
          educational institutions to  pay  the  salaries  and  compensation  of
          school crossing guards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 208-a of the general municipal law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 131 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 208-a. School guards.  The duly constituted authorities of any city,
     4  town,  or village or any county police department or police district may
     5  designate, authorize and appoint  such  a  number  of  persons  as  such
     6  authority  shall  deem necessary, and at such salaries as such authority
     7  shall deem advisable, as school crossing guards  to  aid  in  protecting
     8  school  children going to and from school, and church crossing guards to
     9  aid in protecting persons going to and from places of worship,  and  for
    10  such  purpose  shall have power to control vehicular traffic within such
    11  municipality. A public school, school  district,  board  of  cooperative
    12  educational  services and any other public or private educational insti-
    13  tution may enter into an agreement with any city, town, village or coun-
    14  ty police department or police district whereby such educational  insti-
    15  tution  pays  all or any portion of the salaries and compensation of the
    16  school crossing guards providing services to the students of such insti-
    17  tution.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00303-01-7