Bill Text: NY A04934 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards; designates NYC correction officers as peace officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-27 - print number 4934a [A04934 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04934-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 13, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE, GOLDFEDER -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Economic Development -- recommitted to the Committee
on Economic Development in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to exempting
certain officers of the departments of correction and sanitation of
the city of New York from training requirements for security guards;
and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
correction officers of New York city as peace officers
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of
2 the general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph g
3 as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
4 graph h is added to read as follows:
5 a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility OR A MEMBER
6 OF THE UNIFORMED CORRECTION FORCE OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
7 CORRECTION having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision
8 twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
9 f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
10 (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
11 1.20 of the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such
12 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
13 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
14 period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his
15 or her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of
16 an eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the commis-
17 sioner, and provided further, however, that a retired police officer who
18 will be required by his or her security guard employer to carry a
19 firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory completion of a
2 forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by the commissioner
3 and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within one
4 year prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an additional
5 eight hour annual firearms in-service training course approved by the
6 commissioner, such training course to be completed at least annually;
7 [or]
8 g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
9 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
10 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
11 a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that a retired
12 peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
13 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his or her
14 security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of an
15 eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the municipal
16 police training council, and provided further, however, that a retired
17 peace officer who will be required by his or her security guard employer
18 to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm
19 shall provide to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory
20 completion of a forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by
21 the municipal police training council and, if such firearms training
22 course has not been completed within one year prior to employment,
23 satisfactory completion of an additional eight hour annual firearms
24 in-service training course approved by the municipal police training
25 council, such training course to be completed at least annually[.]; OR
26 H. AN OFFICER OR MEMBER OF THE SANITATION POLICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
27 SANITATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK HAVING THE POWERS OF A PEACE OFFICER
28 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIFTY-NINE OF SECTION 2.10 OF THE CRIMINAL
29 PROCEDURE LAW.
30 S 2. Subdivision 25 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, as
31 amended by section 70 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
32 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
33 25. Officials, as designated by the commissioner of the department of
34 corrections and community supervision pursuant to rules of the depart-
35 ment, and correction officers of any state OR NEW YORK CITY correctional
36 facility or of any penal correctional institution.
37 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
