Bill Text: NY A07575 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the presentment of flags which were lowered to half-staff in memorial of the death of any police officer or peace officer; establishes that the commissioner of the division of criminal justice services, with the office of general services, shall arrange for the procurement and presentment of flags that were flown at half-staff in memorial of the death of any police officer or peace officer to the person designated to dispose of the remains of the officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-26 - signed chap.385 [A07575 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07575-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7575
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 19, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  presentment  of
         flags which were lowered to half-staff in memorial of the death of any
         police officer or peace officer
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  845-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 845-A. PRESENTMENT OF FLAGS LOWERED TO HALF-STAFF IN MEMORIAL OF THE
    4  DEATH  OF ANY POLICE OFFICER OR PEACE OFFICER. IN THE EVENT THE GOVERNOR
    5  ORDERS THE FLAGS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF NEW  YORK  TO  BE
    6  LOWERED TO HALF-STAFF, IN MEMORIAL OF THE DEATH OF ANY POLICE OFFICER OR
    7  PEACE  OFFICER  IDENTIFIED IN THE CENTRAL STATE REGISTRY OF POLICE OFFI-
    8  CERS AND PEACE OFFICERS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO  SECTION  EIGHT  HUNDRED
    9  FORTY-FIVE  OF THIS ARTICLE, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN COOPERATION WITH
   10  THE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES, ARRANGE FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF A FLAG OF
   11  THE UNITED STATES AND A FLAG OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WHICH WERE FLYING
   12  OVER THE CAPITOL BUILDING  AT  THE  TIME  SUCH  FLAGS  WERE  LOWERED  TO
   13  HALF-STAFF IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER. UPON THE PROCUREMENT
   14  OF  SUCH  FLAGS,  THE  COMMISSIONER, OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE, SHALL
   15  OFFER THE PRESENTMENT OF SUCH FLAGS, WITHOUT COST, TO THE PERSON  DESIG-
   16  NATED  TO  DISPOSE  OF  THE  REMAINS OF THE OFFICER, IN WHOSE HONOR SUCH
   17  FLAGS WERE LOWERED IN MEMORIAL.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10826-01-5