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Assembly Bill A7643

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Designates investigators appointed by the state liquor authority as police officers; repealer

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2009-A7643 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1.20, rpld §2.10 sub 36, CP L; amd §15, ABC L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2558

2009-A7643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates investigators appointed by the state liquor authority as police officers, rather than peace officers.

2009-A7643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7643

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, PERRY, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by
  --  M.  of  A.  COLTON, GREENE, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and  the  alcoholic  beverage
  control law, in relation to designating investigators appointed by the
  state  liquor  authority as police officers; and to repeal subdivision
  36 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law relating to designat-
  ing such investigators as peace officers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  34 of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure
law is amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
  (W) AN INVESTIGATOR APPOINTED BY THE STATE LIQUOR  AUTHORITY  PURSUANT
TO SECTION FIFTEEN OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW.
  S  2.  Subdivision 36 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is
REPEALED.
  S 3. The opening paragraph of section 15  of  the  alcoholic  beverage
control law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to
read as follows:
  The  authority  shall  have  power  to appoint any necessary deputies,
counsels, assistants, investigators,  and  other  employees  within  the
limits  provided  by  appropriation.    Investigators so employed by the
[Authority] AUTHORITY shall be [deemed to be peace] POLICE officers  for
the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  provisions  of [the alcoholic beverage
control law] THIS CHAPTER or [judgements] JUDGMENTS or  orders  obtained
for violation thereof[, with all the powers set forth in section 2.20 of
the  criminal  procedure  law].  The counsel, secretary, chief executive
officer, assistant chief executive officers, confidential secretaries to
commissioners and deputies shall be in the exempt  class  of  the  civil
service.  The  other  assistants,  investigators  and  employees  of the
authority shall all be in the competitive class of  the  civil  service.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10774-01-9

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