Bill Text: NY A05334 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Grants peace officer status to animal control officers of the county of Schuyler; defines "animal control officer".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - REFERRED TO RULES [A05334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05334-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5334--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  granting
          peace  officer  status  to  animal  control  officers of the county of
          Schuyler

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 87 to read as follows:
     3    87. Employees of the county of  Schuyler  serving  as  animal  control
     4  officers for such county; provided, however, that nothing in this subdi-
     5  vision  shall  be  deemed  to  authorize such animal control officers to
     6  carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm  unless  the  appropriate
     7  license therefor has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal
     8  law.  For  the  purposes  of  this subdivision, the term "animal control
     9  officer" shall have the same meaning as defined  by  section  twenty-one
    10  hundred forty of the public health law.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09826-02-4