S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2661
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the maximum age of
certain persons applying for provisional or permanent appointment as
fire fighters
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-a of the civil service law, as
amended by section 1 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of 2013, 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 fire fighter unless he or she shall:
(A) satisfy the basic requirements for education, health and physical
fitness established by the state fire administrator pursuant to section
one hundred fifty-eight of the executive law; AND
(B) IS NOT MORE THAN TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF AGE ON THE DATE HE OR SHE
TAKES THE WRITTEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR SUCH APPOINTMENT;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE 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 TWENTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY AS
PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TEN-A OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED FORTY-THREE OF THE
MILITARY LAW.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law and shall apply to an eligible list for appointment in
the competitive class of civil service as a fire fighter established on
or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04668-01-9