Assembly Bill A6575

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to hiring of police officers in the department of environmental conservation

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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-A6575 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1584
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง58, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A8619, S5113

2013-A6575 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to hiring of police officers in the department of environmental conservation.

2013-A6575 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6575

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 10, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to the hiring of
  police officers in the department of environmental conservation

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 58 of the civil service law, as
amended by chapter 560 of the laws of 1978,  the  opening  paragraph  as
amended  by chapter 435 of the laws of 1997 and paragraph (a) as amended
by chapter 346 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this  law  or  any  general,
special  or  local  law to the contrary, no person shall be eligible for
provisional or permanent appointment in the  competitive  class  of  the
civil  service  as  a  police officer OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION OR of any police force or police department of any  county,
city,  town,  village, housing authority or police district unless he OR
SHE shall satisfy the following basic requirements:
  (a) he or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the  date  of
appointment  nor  more than thirty-five years of age as of the date when
the applicant takes the written examination, provided that  the  maximum
age  requirement  of thirty-five years of age as set forth in this para-
graph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant to  an  exam-
ination  administered  prior to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred nine-
ty-nine  OR  A  POLICE  OFFICER  IN  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF   ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION, provided, however, that:
  (i)  time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a
total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age  of  any  applicant
who  has passed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in subdivi-
sion ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military law;
  (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four  of  section

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04679-01-3
              

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