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Assembly Bill A2733A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the commissioner of the department of civil service to reinstate Daniel Montalto on the eligible civil service list for employment as a police officer in the town of Shawangunk

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2025-A2733 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8398
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service

2025-A2733 - Summary

Authorizes Daniel Montalto to take the competitive civil service exam for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the town of Shawangunk.

2025-A2733 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2733
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of the department of civil  service
   to  reinstate  Daniel  Montalto on the eligible civil service list for
   employment as a police officer in the town of Shawangunk

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Notwithstanding  the provision of section 58 of the civil
 service law or any other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  Daniel
 Montalto,  who was eligible to sit for the civil service exam for police
 officers on December 4, 2004, and  was  eligible  for  employment  as  a
 police  officer  for  the town of Hyde Park, New York, at that time, and
 who took and passed said exam  on  December  4,  2004,  and  whose  name
 appeared  on  the  next civil service eligible list, and who served as a
 police officer in the town of Hyde Park, New York from 2005 to 2019, and
 who is now forty-three years of age and no longer  deemed  eligible  for
 employment  as a police officer due to the 35-year maximum age limit for
 police officers pursuant to section 58 of the civil service  law,  shall
 be  exempt from said thirty-five year old maximum age limit and shall be
 eligible for employment as a police officer in the town  of  Shawangunk,
 New  York.  Daniel  Montalto shall otherwise be subject to the merit and
 fitness provisions of the civil service  laws  applicable  to  full-time
 police officers.
   §  2.  The commissioner of the department of civil service shall rein-
 state Daniel Montalto on the eligible civil service list,  without  lost
 rank  or seniority, provided Mr. Montalto files a request to that effect
 with the state comptroller by January 1, 2027.   Any such  reinstatement
 shall be effective immediately.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04998-01-5

2025-A2733A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8398
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service

2025-A2733A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes Daniel Montalto to take the competitive civil service exam for the position of police officer and be placed on the eligible civil service list for employment as a full-time police officer for the town of Shawangunk.

2025-A2733A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2733--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- 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  in  relation to authorizing Daniel Montalto to take the compet-
   itive civil service examination for the position of police officer and
   be placed on the eligible list for employment as  a  full-time  police
   officer for the town of Shawangunk
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 58 of the  civil
 service  law,  including  the  age  requirements  under paragraph (a) of
 subdivision 1 of such section, or any other  provision  of  law  to  the
 contrary,  Daniel  Montalto,  who  has been continuously employed by the
 town of Shawangunk, in the county of Ulster, as a part-time police offi-
 cer, shall be eligible to take the competitive civil service examination
 for the position of police officer and shall, contingent upon his  score
 on  such  examination, be eligible to be placed on the eligible list for
 appointment as a full-time police officer with the  town  of  Shawangunk
 police department.
   §  2.    Daniel  Montalto  shall otherwise be subject to the merit and
 fitness provisions of the civil  service  law  applicable  to  full-time
 police officers.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04998-02-5

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