Bill Text: NY A04249 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the enactment of local laws requiring residency in cities with a population of one million or more for members of the police force appointed to such positions; provides increased salaries for certain police officers who are residents of certain cities; provides additional credits on competitive exams for original appointment of police officers, tax credits, real property tax credits and student loan forgiveness based upon residency in certain cities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-24 - print number 4249a [A04249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04249-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4249--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Governmental  Operations  --  recommitted to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, the general municipal  law  and
          the  civil service law, in relation to residency requirements, salary,
          and civil service exam credits for police officers in certain  cities;
          to  amend  the  tax  law and the real property tax law, in relation to
          establishing certain tax credits for resident police officers; and  to
          amend  the  education  law,  in  relation  to  the police officer loan
          forgiveness program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 65 to read as follows:
     3    65. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
     4  a city with a population of one million or more shall have the authority
     5  to  enact  a local law subsequent to the effective date of this subdivi-
     6  sion requiring any person who is appointed as a  member  of  the  police
     7  force  of  such  city  to be a resident of such a city during his or her
     8  employment as a police officer; provided however, that nothing  in  this
     9  subdivision  shall  authorize  such  local  law to affect any person who
    10  entered such city service as a  police  officer  prior  to  thirty  days
    11  subsequent to the date of enactment of the local law.
    12    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    13  207-s to read as follows:
    14    § 207-s. Salaries of police officers  who  are  residents  of  certain
    15  cities.  A  city  with  a  population of one hundred thousand or more is
    16  hereby authorized to adopt a local law to provide that the salary  of  a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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