Bill Text: NY A05191 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to police staffing at certain parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A05191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05191-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5191
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to police staffing at certain parks
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3.07 of the parks, recreation and historic  preser-
     2  vation  law  is  amended  by adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3. The commissioner shall provide for the health, safety  and  welfare
     5  of  the  public  using  facilities  under  its jurisdiction, which shall
     6  include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanent-
     7  ly appointed, full time regional state park  police  officers  at  state
     8  parks,  beaches,  campgrounds,  historic  sites and concert venues.  The
     9  number of regional state park police officers deployed  to  each  region
    10  shall be equivalent to the percentage of each region's five year attend-
    11  ance average.
    12    4.  The  commissioner  shall  not  open a new state park, beach, camp-
    13  ground, historic site or concert venue unless it submits a staffing plan
    14  to the legislature that demonstrates there is  a  sufficient  number  of
    15  regional  state park police to provide adequate and appropriate delivery
    16  of police services to patrons visiting the new site.
    17    5. The commissioner may redeploy regional state park  police  officers
    18  outside  of their assigned region in the case of an emergency.  Emergen-
    19  cies are defined as natural disasters,  declared  emergencies  and  mass
    20  casualty incidents.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    22  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02707-01-9