Bill Text: NY S02778 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the city of New York as police officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02778 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02778-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2778

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  designating
          sheriffs,  under-sheriffs  and deputy sheriffs of the city of New York
          as police officers

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 34 of section 1.20 of the
     2  criminal procedure law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (b) Sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs [of counties  outside
     4  of New York City];
     5    §  2.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 34 of section 1.20 of the criminal
     6  procedure law, as amended by section 13 of part BBB of chapter 59 of the
     7  laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     8    (b) Sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs [of counties  outside
     9  of  New  York City where such department is certified in accordance with
    10  paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section eight hundred forty-six-h of
    11  the executive law];
    12    § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure  law,  as
    13  amended  by  chapter  969  of  the  laws  of 1983, is amended to read as
    14  follows:
    15    2. [The sheriff, undersheriff and deputy sheriffs of New York city and
    16  sworn] Sworn officers of the Westchester  county  department  of  public
    17  safety  services  appointed after January thirty-first, nineteen hundred
    18  eighty-three to the title of public safety officer and who  perform  the
    19  functions previously performed by a Westchester county deputy sheriff on
    20  or prior to such date.
    21    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    22  section two of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
    23  same manner as section 13 of part BBB of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021,
    24  takes effect.

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