STATE OF NEW YORK
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1982
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local
5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police
8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created
10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] such
11 person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic
12 training program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis
13 or for a probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a
14 police officer of any county, city, town, village or police district
15 shall forfeit [his] their position as such unless [he] such person
16 previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the time prescribed
17 by regulations promulgated by the governor pursuant to section eight
18 hundred forty-two of the executive law, satisfactorily completes, a
19 municipal police basic training program for temporary or probationary
20 police officers and is awarded a certificate by such director attesting
21 thereto. An elected or appointed sheriff or undersheriff shall not be
22 subject to the training requirements of this section.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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