Bill Text: NY A05372 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the geographical area of employment of university police officers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-21 - REFERRED TO RULES [A05372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05372-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5372
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 16, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL, SCHROEDER, COLTON, HOYT, KOLB -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M. of A. CONTE, RUSSELL,  SWEENEY  --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Codes
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the education law, in
         relation to expanding the geographical area of employment of universi-
         ty police officers; and to repeal paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of
         section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law relating thereto
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the
    2  criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 428 of the laws  of  1999,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  [Except  as  provided  in paragraph (d) of this subdivision,] New
    5  York state constitutes the "geographical  area  of  employment"  of  any
    6  police  officer  employed  as  such  by  an agency of the state or by an
    7  authority which functions throughout the  state,  or  a  police  officer
    8  designated by the superintendent of state police pursuant to section two
    9  hundred twenty-three of the executive law;
   10    S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
   11  procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended
   12  to read as follows:
   13    (a)  [Except as provided in paragraph (d),] New York state constitutes
   14  the "geographical area of employment" of any police officer employed  as
   15  such  by  an  agency  of  the  state  or by an authority which functions
   16  throughout the state;
   17    S 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
   18  procedure law is REPEALED.
   19    S 4. Paragraph l of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law,
   20  as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is  amended  to  read  as
   21  follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    l.  To appoint university police officers who shall have the powers of
    2  police  officers  and  to  remove  such  police  officers  at  pleasure;
    3  provided,  however, that any person appointed a police officer must have
    4  satisfactorily completed or complete within one year of the date of  his
    5  appointment a course of law enforcement training approved by the munici-
    6  pal  police  training  council in consultation with the university.  [It
    7  shall be the duty of such police officers to preserve law and  order  on
    8  the campuses and other property of the university, including any portion
    9  of a public highway which crosses or abuts such property.]
   10    Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  chancellor, the president of each
   11  state-operated campus of the state university shall enter into a written
   12  agreement with adjoining law enforcement agencies establishing protocols
   13  for the exercise of authority by such university police officer off-cam-
   14  pus, including mutual aid and assistance. Such written  protocols  shall
   15  not  be deemed to supersede the authority of other police officers.  The
   16  provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any of the state  insti-
   17  tutions  and property referred to in section five thousand seven hundred
   18  nine of this chapter.
   19    S 5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
   20  ments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the crimi-
   21  nal procedure law made by section one of this act shall  be  subject  to
   22  the  expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 3 of
   23  chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, as amended, when  upon  such  date  the
   24  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.