Assembly Bill A7852

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Exempts certain officers of the departments of correction and sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards

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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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2015-A7852 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2821
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §89-n, Gen Bus L; amd §2.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10468, S7545
2013-2014: A4934, S3606
2017-2018: A4502, S5282
2019-2020: A5817, S422
2021-2022: A4107, S4499
2023-2024: S2806

2015-A7852 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards; designates correction officers of New York city as peace officers.

2015-A7852 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7852

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABBATE, GOLDFEDER -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Economic Development

AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
  certain  officers  of  the departments of correction and sanitation of
  the city of New York from training requirements for  security  guards;
  and  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
  correction officers of New York city as peace officers

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

  Section  1.  Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of
the general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph  g
as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
graph h is added to read as follows:
  a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility OR A MEMBER
OF  THE  UNIFORMED  CORRECTION  FORCE OF THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF
CORRECTION having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to  subdivision
twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
  f.  a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
(f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision  thirty-four  of  section
1.20  of  the  criminal  procedure  law  who  has been retired from such
employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to  his
or  her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of
an eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the  commis-
sioner, and provided further, however, that a retired police officer who
will  be  required  by  his  or  her  security guard employer to carry a
firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall  provide
to  such  employer  proof  of  his  or  her satisfactory completion of a
forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by  the  commissioner
and,  if such firearms training course has not been completed within one

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01196-01-5
              

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