Bill Text: NY A09877 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for certain peace officers in Albany county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-07-31 - signed chap.145 [A09877 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09877-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9877
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 15, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers  law, in relation to residency
          requirements for certain peace officers in Albany county
          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 3-b of the public officers law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  497  of  the  laws  of 2012, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. No sheriff of a county, mayor of a  city,  or  official,  or  other
     5  persons  authorized  by  law to appoint special deputy sheriffs, special
     6  constables, marshals, police officers, or peace officers in this  state,
     7  to preserve the public peace or quell public disturbance, shall hereaft-
     8  er,  at  the instance of any agent, society, association or corporation,
     9  or  otherwise,  appoint  as  such  special  deputy,  special  constable,
    10  marshal, police officer, or peace officer, any person who shall not be a
    11  citizen  of  the  United States and a resident of the state of New York,
    12  and entitled to vote therein at the time of his appointment, and a resi-
    13  dent of the same county as the mayor or sheriff or other official making
    14  such appointment; provided, however, that when, in  the  judgment  of  a
    15  sheriff  of a county except those counties within the city of New York a
    16  situation exists which requires temporary  additional  assistance,  such
    17  sheriff may appoint special deputy sheriffs who are non-residents of the
    18  county  but  residents  of  the  state of New York who shall hold office
    19  until such time as the appointing sheriff determines that the  situation
    20  no  longer exists; and no person shall assume or exercise the functions,
    21  powers, duties or privileges incident and belonging  to  the  office  of
    22  special  deputy sheriff, special constables, marshal, police officer, or
    23  peace officer, without having first received his appointment in  writing
    24  from  the  authority  lawfully appointing him. Nothing herein contained,
    25  however, shall apply to the appointment of a non-resident, as  an  emer-
    26  gency  special  deputy sheriff, by the sheriff of any county to act when
    27  such sheriff has declared a state of special emergency pursuant  to  the
    28  provisions  of  section two hundred nine-f of the general municipal law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 9877                             2
     1  Any person otherwise qualified who  resides  in  either  the  county  of
     2  Nassau or the county of Suffolk may at the instance of a society for the
     3  prevention  of cruelty to animals be appointed as a peace officer by the
     4  appropriate appointing official of either of such counties notwithstand-
     5  ing  that  such  appointee  does  not  reside  in the same county as the
     6  appointing official. Provided, further, that any  person  qualified  who
     7  resides  in  a  county  adjacent  to  the  county of Allegany may at the
     8  instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the
     9  county of Allegany be appointed as a peace officer  by  the  appropriate
    10  appointing  official  of the county of Allegany. Provided, further, that
    11  any person qualified who resides in a county adjacent to the  county  of
    12  Albany  may at the instance of the society for the prevention of cruelty
    13  to animals for the county of Albany be appointed as a peace  officer  by
    14  the appropriate appointing official of the county of Albany.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.