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I N A S S E M B L Y
April 26, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to town police departments in
any village within the town of Tuxedo
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 150 of the town law, as amended by
chapter 843 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
1. The town board of any town may establish a police department and
appoint a chief of police and such officers and patrolmen as may be
needed and fix their compensation. The compensation of such policemen
shall be a town charge; providing however, no assessment on property in
any village within any town or partially within any town shall be made
for the maintenance or operation of a town police department established
after January first, nineteen hundred sixty, pursuant to this section if
any such village maintains a police department of four or more policemen
on an annual full-time basis, established and maintained under the rules
of civil service. The town board may, at its option, determine that the
town shall pay all or part of the cost of the uniforms and necessary
equipment of its policemen, and may purchase such equipment for use by
the police department as it shall deem necessary, including police
patrol vehicles, and emergency service vehicles for police use in
connection with accidents, public calamities or other emergencies. No
assessment on property in any village within any town in the county of
Suffolk [or], in any village within the town of Fallsburgh OR IN ANY
VILLAGE WITHIN THE TOWN OF TUXEDO shall be made for the maintenance or
operation of such town police department, if any such village maintains
a police department of two or more policemen on an annual basis. In the
event that a town has established a police department prior to January
first, nineteen hundred sixty, the town board of such town may enter
into an agreement with any village within it or partially within it
which maintains a police department of four or more policemen on an
annual full-time basis, established and maintained under the rules of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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civil service and determine therein what part of the cost thereof shall
be assessed against the property in the village and what part thereof
shall be assessed against the property in the town outside of the
village. Thereafter such portion of the cost thereof determined to be
assessed outside of the village shall be a charge against that part of
the town outside of the village and assessed, levied and collected from
the taxable property of that part of the town outside of the village.
When appointed, such policemen shall be police officers and shall have
all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities of a
police officer in all criminal actions and proceedings and special
proceedings of a criminal nature.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.