Bill Text: NY A05578 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5578 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Designates members of the security force of Mary Imogene Bassett hospital network as peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A05578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05578-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5578
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  granting
          peace  officer status to officers and members of the security force of
          the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Network
          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 85 to read as follows:
     3    85. Officers and members  of  the  security  force  employed  by  Mary
     4  Imogene  Bassett  Hospital  within  and  directly  adjacent  to the Mary
     5  Imogene Bassett Hospital Campus in Cooperstown, New York, and affiliated
     6  hospitals and clinics owned or operated by Mary Imogene  Bassett  Hospi-
     7  tal,  and  so designated by the board of trustees of the hospital.  Such
     8  officers shall have only the powers enumerated in section  9.41  of  the
     9  mental  hygiene  law  and the powers listed in paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
    10  (d) and (h)  of  subdivision  one  of  section  2.20  of  this  article;
    11  provided,  however,  that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
    12  authorize any such officer to carry, possess, repair  or  dispose  of  a
    13  firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant
    14  to section 400.00 of the penal law.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09412-01-9