Bill Text: NY A04257 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes bay constables appointed by a county, city, town or village within the definition of peace officers.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-21 - enacting clause stricken [A04257 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04257-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4257
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 1, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. RAIA, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         FITZPATRICK, McDONOUGH, RABBITT, THIELE -- read once and  referred  to
         the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to including bay
         constables  appointed  by  a  county, city, town or village within the
         definition of peace officers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  18 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as amended by chapter 224 of the laws of 1998, is amended  to  read
    3  as follows:
    4    18.  Bay  [constable  of  the city of Rye, the villages of Mamaroneck,
    5  South Nyack and bay constables of the towns of East Hampton,  Hempstead,
    6  Oyster  Bay,  Riverhead,  Southampton,  Southold, Islip, Shelter Island,
    7  Brookhaven,  Babylon,  Smithtown,  Huntington   and   North   Hempstead;
    8  provided,  however,  that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
    9  authorize the bay constables in the city of Rye, the  village  of  South
   10  Nyack  or  the  towns  of  Brookhaven,  Babylon, Southold, East Hampton,
   11  Riverhead, Islip, other than a bay constable of the town  of  Islip  who
   12  prior to April third, nineteen hundred ninety-eight served as harbormas-
   13  ter  for  such town and whose position was reclassified as bay constable
   14  for such town prior to such  date,  Smithtown,  Huntington  and  Shelter
   15  Island  to  carry,  possess,  repair  or dispose of a firearm unless the
   16  appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant to section  400.00
   17  of  the  penal  law]  CONSTABLES  APPOINTED  BY  A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR
   18  VILLAGE.
   19    S 2.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after  it  shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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