Bill Text: NY S06579 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the validity of certificates attesting to the satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic training program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - PRINT NUMBER 6579A [S06579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06579-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6579--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 29, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
         committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  the  validity
         of  certificates  attesting  to  the  satisfactory  completion  of  an
         approved municipal police basic training program
         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 1 of section 209-q of the
    2  general municipal law, as amended by chapter 551 of the laws of 2001, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) A certificate attesting to satisfactory completion of an  approved
    5  municipal  police basic training program awarded by the executive direc-
    6  tor of the municipal police training council pursuant to  this  subdivi-
    7  sion shall remain valid:
    8    (i)  during  the  holder's  continuous  service as a police officer or
    9  peace officer who has an  equivalency  certificate  for  police  officer
   10  training  or  an approved course for state university of New York public
   11  safety officers issued in accordance with subdivision three  of  section
   12  eight hundred forty-one of the executive law; and
   13    (ii)  for  two  years  after the date of the commencement of an inter-
   14  ruption in such service where the holder had, immediately prior to  such
   15  interruption,  served  as  a  police officer or peace officer who has an
   16  equivalency certificate for  police  officer  training  or  an  approved
   17  course for state university of New York public safety officers issued in
   18  accordance  with subdivision three of section eight hundred forty-one of
   19  the executive law, for less than two consecutive years; or
   20    (iii) for four years after the date of the commencement of  an  inter-
   21  ruption  in such service where the holder had, immediately prior to such
   22  interruption, served as a police officer or peace  officer  who  has  an
   23  equivalency  certificate  for  police  officer  training  or an approved
   24  course for state university of New York public safety officers issued in
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  accordance with subdivision three of section eight hundred forty-one  of
    2  the executive law, for two consecutive years or longer; [or]
    3    (iv)  where  the holder, whose interruption in continuous service as a
    4  police officer does not exceed ten years, has  satisfactorily  completed
    5  an  approved  police  officer refresher course or where a peace officer,
    6  who seeks an equivalency certificate for police officer training  or  an
    7  approved  course for state university of New York public safety officers
    8  issued in accordance with subdivision three  of  section  eight  hundred
    9  forty-one  of  the  executive law, has satisfactorily completed relevant
   10  police officer training courses, as prescribed by the  municipal  police
   11  training council; OR
   12    (V)  FOR  UP  TO  A  THREE  YEAR  PERIOD OF INTERRUPTION IN CONTINUOUS
   13  SERVICE, WHERE THE HOLDER HAS PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS POLICE OFFICER FOR AT
   14  LEAST TEN YEARS AND HAS AN EQUIVALENCY CERTIFICATE  FOR  POLICE  OFFICER
   15  TRAINING,  PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT SUCH INTERRUPTION CONSISTED OF SERVING
   16  AS A PEACE OFFICER FOR STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OR ANY  INSTRUMENTALI-
   17  TIES  THEREOF AND THAT SUCH SERVICE AS A PEACE OFFICER WAS SUBSTANTIALLY
   18  COMPARABLE TO THE DUTIES OF A  POLICE  OFFICER,  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE
   19  ADMINISTRATOR  OF  THE EMPLOYING POLICE AGENCY, AND PROVIDED FURTHER, IF
   20  DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE  EMPLOYING  POLICE  AGENCY,
   21  THE HOLDER HAS SATISFACTORILY COMPLETED RELEVANT POLICE OFFICER REFRESH-
   22  ER TRAINING COURSES.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   24  it shall have become a law.