Bill Text: NY A05632 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to town police departments in any village within the town of Tuxedo.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - enacting clause stricken [A05632 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05632-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5632
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN  ACT to amend the town law, in relation to town police departments in
          any village within the town of Tuxedo
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 150 of the town law, as amended by
     2  chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  The  town  board of any town may establish a police department and
     4  appoint a chief of police and such officers  and  patrolmen  as  may  be
     5  needed  and  fix  their compensation. The compensation of such policemen
     6  shall be a town charge; providing however, no assessment on property  in
     7  any  village  within any town or partially within any town shall be made
     8  for the maintenance or operation of a town police department established
     9  after January first, nineteen hundred sixty, pursuant to this section if
    10  any such village maintains a police department of four or more policemen
    11  on an annual full-time basis, established and maintained under the rules
    12  of civil service. The town board may, at its option, determine that  the
    13  town  shall  pay  all  or part of the cost of the uniforms and necessary
    14  equipment of its policemen, and may purchase such equipment for  use  by
    15  the  police  department  as  it  shall  deem necessary, including police
    16  patrol vehicles, and  emergency  service  vehicles  for  police  use  in
    17  connection  with  accidents,  public calamities or other emergencies. No
    18  assessment on property in any village within any town in the  county  of
    19  Suffolk  [or],  in  any  village within the town of Fallsburgh or in any
    20  village within the town of Tuxedo shall be made for the  maintenance  or
    21  operation  of such town police department, if any such village maintains
    22  a police department of two or more policemen on an annual basis. In  the
    23  event  that  a town has established a police department prior to January
    24  first, nineteen hundred sixty, the town board of  such  town  may  enter
    25  into  an  agreement  with  any  village within it or partially within it
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09033-01-7

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     1  which maintains a police department of four  or  more  policemen  on  an
     2  annual  full-time  basis,  established and maintained under the rules of
     3  civil service and determine therein what part of the cost thereof  shall
     4  be  assessed  against  the property in the village and what part thereof
     5  shall be assessed against the  property  in  the  town  outside  of  the
     6  village.    Thereafter such portion of the cost thereof determined to be
     7  assessed outside of the village shall be a charge against that  part  of
     8  the  town outside of the village and assessed, levied and collected from
     9  the taxable property of that part of the town outside  of  the  village.
    10  When  appointed,  such policemen shall be police officers and shall have
    11  all the powers and be subject to all the duties  and  liabilities  of  a
    12  police  officer  in  all  criminal  actions  and proceedings and special
    13  proceedings of a criminal nature.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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