Bill Text: NY A08943 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires members of the metropolitan transportation authority police force to wear body cameras and for such camera to be on at all times during the officer's shift; directs the chief of the metropolitan transportation authority police force to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to such body cameras.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - print number 8943a [A08943 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08943-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8943--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 2, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Corporations, Authorities and Commissions 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 public authorities law, in relation to requiring
          members of the metropolitan transportation authority police  force  to
          wear body cameras

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1266-h of the  public  authorities
     2  law,  as added by chapter 327 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The authority is hereby authorized and empowered,  to  provide  and
     5  maintain an authority police department and a uniformed authority police
     6  force.  Each  member  of  such uniformed police force shall be a "police
     7  officer" for the purposes of the criminal procedure law, with all of the
     8  powers of such police officers thereunder and subject to the same juris-
     9  dictional provisions on the exercise of that power as set forth in  such
    10  law.  Each  police officer shall be assigned and required to wear during
    11  his or her shift a body-worn camera which shall be capable of both audio
    12  and video recording and shall be on at all times  during  the  officer's
    13  shift.  The  geographical area of employment of such police officers for
    14  the purposes of the criminal procedure law shall embrace  the  metropol-
    15  itan  commuter  transportation  district  as  defined  in section twelve
    16  hundred sixty-two of this title. Such department and  force  shall  have
    17  the  power,  in  and  about any or all of the facilities owned, occupied
    18  and/or operated by the authority and its  subsidiary  corporations,  the
    19  New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, and the triborough
    20  bridge  and  tunnel  authority,  as  determined in the discretion of the
    21  authority, to enforce and prevent violation of all laws and  ordinances.
    22  Nothing  herein  shall  confer  upon  the authority police force or upon
    23  their collective negotiations representatives exclusive jurisdiction  or
    24  claim  over  the  exercise of police power or security work on behalf of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14032-03-0
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     1  the authority and its subsidiary corporations, the New York city transit
     2  authority and its subsidiaries, and the  triborough  bridge  and  tunnel
     3  authority.  Nothing  herein shall limit the authority and its subsidiary
     4  corporations,  the New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries,
     5  and the triborough bridge and tunnel authority from continuing  to  rely
     6  on  local  police for police services. However, traditional police func-
     7  tions previously performed by the Long Island Rail Road  Company  and/or
     8  the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company police force shall continue to
     9  be performed by the authority police forces.
    10    §  2. Rules and regulations. The chief of the metropolitan transporta-
    11  tion authority police shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may
    12  be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.