Bill Text: NY A04031 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes maximum age requirements for New York city correction officers; provides that the commissioner of correction shall not appoint a person as a correction officer if such person is more than thirty-five years of age as of the date of the applicant's appointment or eligibility to compete in a promotion examination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental employees [A04031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04031-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4031

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to establishing maximum age requirements for  New  York  city
          correctional officers

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

     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 9-117.2 to read as follows:
     3    §  9-117.2  Requirements  for  appointments  of uniformed force of the
     4  department of correction. a. The commissioner of  correction  shall  not
     5  appoint  any  person as a uniformed correction officer of the department
     6  of correction unless such person is not less than  twenty-one  years  of
     7  age as of the date of appointment nor more than thirty-five years of age
     8  as of the date when the applicant is appointed or eligible to compete in
     9  a  promotion  examination  pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision b of
    10  section 9-117 of this chapter.
    11    b. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or  affect  the
    12  existing  authority  of  the  mayor and commissioner to appoint non-uni-
    13  formed persons, whose duties include overall security of the  department
    14  of correction, to positions of authority.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law and shall apply  to  appointments  established  on  or
    17  after such date.



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