Bill Text: NY S07029 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates members of the security force of Mary Imogene Bassett hospital network as peace officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-09 - referred to codes [S07029 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07029-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7029 IN SENATE March 17, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- 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 granting peace officer status to officers and members of the security force of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Network The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 84 to read as follows: 3 84. Officers and members of the security force employed by Mary 4 Imogene Bassett Hospital within and directly adjacent to the Mary 5 Imogene Bassett Hospital Campus in Cooperstown, New York, and affiliated 6 hospitals and clinics owned or operated by Mary Imogene Bassett Hospi- 7 tal, and so designated by the board of trustees of the hospital. Such 8 officers shall have only the powers enumerated in section 9.41 of the 9 mental hygiene law and the powers listed in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), 10 (d) and (h) of subdivision one of section 2.20 of this article; 11 provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to 12 authorize any such officer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a 13 firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant 14 to section 400.00 of the penal law. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14738-01-6