Bill Text: NY A06146 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to police staffing at certain parks; bases the number of officers deployed to regions upon a percentage of the region's park attendance average.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A06146 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06146-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6146

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to police staffing at certain parks

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

     1    Section 1. Section 3.07 of the parks, recreation and historic  preser-
     2  vation  law  is  amended  by adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3. The commissioner shall provide for the health, safety  and  welfare
     5  of  the  public  using  facilities  under  its jurisdiction, which shall
     6  include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanent-
     7  ly appointed, full time regional state park  police  officers  at  state
     8  parks,  beaches,  campgrounds,  historic  sites and concert venues.  The
     9  number of regional state park police officers deployed  to  each  region
    10  shall  be  equivalent  to  the  percentage  of  each region's three year
    11  attendance average.
    12    4. The commissioner shall not open a  new  state  park,  beach,  camp-
    13  ground, historic site or concert venue unless it submits a staffing plan
    14  to  the  legislature  that  demonstrates there is a sufficient number of
    15  regional state park police to provide adequate and appropriate  delivery
    16  of police services to patrons visiting the new site.
    17    5.  The  commissioner may redeploy regional state park police officers
    18  outside of their assigned region in the case of an emergency.   Emergen-
    19  cies  are  defined  as  natural disasters, declared emergencies and mass
    20  casualty incidents.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    22  law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09842-01-1