S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8949--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 30, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SHIMSKY, GUNTHER, LUCAS, TAYLOR,
SEAWRIGHT, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, LEVENBERG, COOK,
SEPTIMO, WOERNER, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing the age
of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain
police officers from thirty-five to forty
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 58 of the civil
service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) he or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of
appointment nor more than [thirty-five] FORTY years of age as of the
date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that the
maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] FORTY years of age as set forth
in this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant
to an examination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen
hundred ninety-nine or a police officer in the department of environ-
mental 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] FORTIETH birthday as provided
in subdivision ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military
law;
(ii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] FORTY years shall
not apply to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of
section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously
employed by the Buffalo municipal housing authority between January
first, two thousand five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who
takes the next written exam offered after the effective date of this
subparagraph by the city of Buffalo civil service commission for employ-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ment as a police officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or
June thirtieth, two thousand six, whichever is later; and
(iii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] FORTY years shall
not apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village
police force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible
list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates;
provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible
list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other require-
ments of merit and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed
the maximum age of [thirty-nine] FORTY-FOUR;
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.