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Assembly Bill A7086A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

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2023-A7086 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2695
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9264
2025-2026: A3836, S1982

2023-A7086 - Summary

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

2023-A7086 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7086
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
   of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the
 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special  or  local
 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
 as  a  police  officer  of  any  county,  city,  town, village or police
 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
 the executive director of the municipal police training council  created
 under  article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to his satis-
 factory completion  of  an  approved  municipal  police  basic  training
 program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a
 probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer
 of  any county, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit his
 position as such unless he previously has satisfactorily  completed,  or
 within  the  time  prescribed by regulations promulgated by the governor
 pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the executive law, satis-
 factorily completes, a  municipal  police  basic  training  program  for
 temporary  or  probationary police officers and is awarded a certificate
 by such director attesting thereto.  AN ELECTED OR APPOINTED SHERIFF, OR
 APPOINTED UNDERSHERIFF, SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED A  PERSON  WHO  RECEIVES
 SUCH  AN  ORIGINAL  APPOINTMENT ON A PERMANENT BASIS AS A POLICE OFFICER
 AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06930-01-3

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2023-A7086A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2695
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209-q, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9264
2025-2026: A3836, S1982

2023-A7086A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

2023-A7086A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7086--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
   of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  209-q  of  the
 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any general, special or local
 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
 as a police officer  of  any  county,  city,  town,  village  or  police
 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
 the  executive director of the municipal police training council created
 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to his  satis-
 factory  completion  of  an  approved  municipal  police  basic training
 program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a
 probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer
 of any county, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit  his
 position  as  such unless he previously has satisfactorily completed, or
 within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated  by  the  governor
 pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the executive law, satis-
 factorily  completes,  a  municipal  police  basic  training program for
 temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded  a  certificate
 by  such director attesting thereto.  AN ELECTED OR APPOINTED SHERIFF OR
 UNDERSHERIFF SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE TRAINING REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS
 SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06930-05-3

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