S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 10, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ESPAILLAT, ORTIZ, PERALTA, GREENE -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to waiving the citizenship requirements for New York city
police officers and firefighters
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 14-109 of the administrative code
of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 23 of the city
of New York for the year 1998, is amended to read as follows:
a. Only persons shall be appointed or reappointed to membership in the
police force or continue to hold membership therein, [who are citizens
of the United States and] who have never been convicted of a felony[,]
and who can read and write understandably the English language. Skilled
officers of experience may be appointed for temporary detective duty who
are not residents of the city. Only persons shall be appointed police
officers who shall be at the date of THE filing of an application for
civil service examination less than thirty-five years of age, except,
that every person who, as of the fifteenth day of April 1997, satisfied
all other requirements for admission to the New York city police depart-
ment academy shall be admitted to such academy and shall be eligible for
appointment as a police officer, subject to the provisions of the civil
service law and any applicable provisions of the charter, notwithstand-
ing that such person was thirty-five years of age or older on the
fifteenth day of April 1997. Persons who shall have been members of the
force, and shall have been dismissed therefrom, shall not be reap-
pointed. Persons who are appointed as police trainees, after examination
in accordance with the civil service law and the rules of the commis-
sioner of citywide administrative services and who have satisfactorily
completed service as such trainees, may likewise be appointed as police
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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officers without further written examination, provided that they shall
have passed a medical examination at the end of their required trainee
period. Persons appointed as police trainees shall not be considered
members of the uniformed force of the department.
S 2. Subdivision a of section 15-103 of the administrative code of the
city of New York is amended to read as follows:
a. To qualify for membership in the department a person shall be:
1. [A citizen of the United States.
2.] Able understandingly to read and write the English language.
[3.] 2. Shall have passed his or her eighteenth birthday but not his
or her twenty-ninth birthday on the date of the filing of his or her
application for civil service examination. No person who qualifies under
this requirement shall be disqualified from membership in the department
because of having passed his or her twenty-ninth birthday subsequent to
the filing of his or her application. However no person shall be
appointed unless he or she shall have attained his or her twenty-first
birthday.
S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.