Assembly Bill A4257

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Confers peace officer status on bay constables

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A4257 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3870
2011-2012: A4558

2013-A4257 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes bay constables appointed by a county, city, town or village within the definition of peace officers.

2013-A4257 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4257

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 1, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RAIA, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  FITZPATRICK, McDONOUGH, RABBITT, THIELE -- read once and  referred  to
  the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to including bay
  constables  appointed  by  a  county, city, town or village within the
  definition of peace officers

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  18 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 224 of the laws of 1998, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  18.  Bay  [constable  of  the city of Rye, the villages of Mamaroneck,
South Nyack and bay constables of the towns of East Hampton,  Hempstead,
Oyster  Bay,  Riverhead,  Southampton,  Southold, Islip, Shelter Island,
Brookhaven,  Babylon,  Smithtown,  Huntington   and   North   Hempstead;
provided,  however,  that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
authorize the bay constables in the city of Rye, the  village  of  South
Nyack  or  the  towns  of  Brookhaven,  Babylon, Southold, East Hampton,
Riverhead, Islip, other than a bay constable of the town  of  Islip  who
prior to April third, nineteen hundred ninety-eight served as harbormas-
ter  for  such town and whose position was reclassified as bay constable
for such town prior to such  date,  Smithtown,  Huntington  and  Shelter
Island  to  carry,  possess,  repair  or dispose of a firearm unless the
appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant to section  400.00
of  the  penal  law]  CONSTABLES  APPOINTED  BY  A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR
VILLAGE.
  S 2.  This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05143-01-3

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