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                                   4782
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  E. BROWN,  DeSTEFANO, DURSO -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  providing
   coverage  for  injuries while in the line of duty by bay constables in
   the town of Hempstead, Nassau county

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general municipal
 law, as amended by section 55 of chapter 476 of the  laws  of  2018,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
 the  sheriff's  department of any county or any member of a police force
 of any county, city  of  less  than  one  million  population,  town  or
 village,  or of any district, agency, board, body or commission thereof,
 or any LIRR police officer as defined in paragraph two of subdivision  a
 of  section three hundred eighty-nine of the retirement and social secu-
 rity law whose benefits are provided in and  pursuant  to  such  section
 three  hundred  eighty-nine,  or  a  detective-investigator or any other
 investigator who is a police officer pursuant to the provisions  of  the
 criminal  procedure law employed in the office of a district attorney of
 any county, or any corrections officer of the county of Erie  department
 of  corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical technician employed by
 the county of Nassau, or any detention officer employed by the  city  of
 Yonkers,  or  any  supervising  fire  inspector,  fire  inspector,  fire
 marshal, or assistant fire marshal employed full-time in the  county  of
 Nassau  fire marshal's office, or at the option of the county of Nassau,
 any probation officer of the county of Nassau, OR ANY  DIRECTOR  OF  BAY
 CONSTABLES,  ASSISTANT  DIRECTOR OF BAY CONSTABLES, BAY CONSTABLE II, OR
 BAY CONSTABLE EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION  AND  WATERWAYS
 IN  THE  TOWN  OF  HEMPSTEAD,  COUNTY  OF  NASSAU, who is injured in the
 performance of [his or her] THEIR duties or  who  is  taken  sick  as  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 result of the performance of [his or her] THEIR duties so as to necessi-
 tate  medical  or  other  lawful remedial treatment shall be paid by the
 municipality or The Long Island Rail Road Company by which [he  or  she]
 SUCH  PERSON  is  employed the full amount of [his or her] SUCH PERSON'S
 regular salary or wages from such employer  until  [his  or  her]  THEIR
 disability  arising  therefrom has ceased, and, in addition such munici-
 pality or The Long Island Rail Road Company  shall  be  liable  for  all
 medical treatment and hospital care necessitated by reason of such inju-
 ry  or  illness.  Provided,  however,  and notwithstanding the foregoing
 provisions of this section, the municipal or The Long Island  Rail  Road
 Company health authorities or any physician appointed for the purpose by
 the  municipality  or  The  Long  Island Rail Road Company, as relevant,
 after a determination has first been made that such injury  or  sickness
 was  incurred  during,  or  resulted from, such performance of duty, may
 attend any such injured or sick police officer, from time to  time,  for
 the  purpose  of  providing medical, surgical or other treatment, or for
 making inspections, and the municipality or The Long  Island  Rail  Road
 Company,  as  the  case  may be, shall not be liable for salary or wages
 payable to such police officer, or for the cost of medical treatment  or
 hospital  care  furnished  after such date as such health authorities or
 physician shall certify that such injured or  sick  police  officer  has
 recovered  and  is physically able to perform [his or her] THEIR regular
 duties. Any injured or sick police officer who shall  refuse  to  accept
 medical  treatment  or  hospital  care or shall refuse to permit medical
 inspections as [herein] authorized IN THIS SECTION,  including  examina-
 tions  pursuant  to  subdivision two of this section, shall be deemed to
 have waived [his or her] THEIR rights under this section in  respect  to
 expenses  for medical treatment or hospital care rendered and for salary
 or wages payable after such refusal.
   Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,  a  provider  of
 medical  treatment or hospital care furnished pursuant to the provisions
 of this section shall not collect or attempt  to  collect  reimbursement
 for  such  treatment  or  care  from  any  such police officer, any such
 advanced ambulance medical technician or any such detention officer.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general municipal  law,  as
 amended  by section 56 of chapter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of
 the sheriff's department of any county (hereinafter  referred  to  as  a
 "police officer") or any member of a police force of any county, city of
 less  than  one million population, town or village, or of any district,
 agency, board, body or commission thereof, or  a  detective-investigator
 or  any  other  investigator  who  is  a  police officer pursuant to the
 provisions of the criminal procedure law employed in  the  office  of  a
 district attorney of any county, or any corrections officer of the coun-
 ty  of  Erie department of corrections, or an advanced ambulance medical
 technician employed by the county of Nassau, or  any  detention  officer
 employed by the city of Yonkers, or any supervising fire inspector, fire
 inspector,  fire marshal or assistant fire marshal employed full-time in
 the county of Nassau fire marshal's office, or  at  the  option  of  the
 county  of Nassau, any probation officer of the county of Nassau, OR ANY
 DIRECTOR OF BAY CONSTABLES, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF  BAY  CONSTABLES,  BAY
 CONSTABLE  II,  OR BAY CONSTABLE EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVA-
 TION AND WATERWAYS IN THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD, COUNTY OF  NASSAU,  who  is
 injured  in the performance of [his or her] THEIR duties or who is taken
 sick as a result of the performance of [his or her] THEIR duties  so  as
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 to  necessitate medical or other lawful remedial treatment shall be paid
 by the municipality by which he or she is employed the  full  amount  of
 [his  or  her]  THEIR  regular  salary or wages until [his or her] THEIR
 disability  arising  therefrom has ceased, and, in addition such munici-
 pality shall be liable for  all  medical  treatment  and  hospital  care
 necessitated by reason of such injury or illness. Provided, however, and
 notwithstanding  the foregoing provisions of this section, the municipal
 health authorities or any physician appointed for  the  purpose  by  the
 municipality, after a determination has first been made that such injury
 or  sickness  was incurred during, or resulted from, such performance of
 duty, may attend any such injured or sick police officer, from  time  to
 time, for the purpose of providing medical, surgical or other treatment,
 or  for  making inspections and the municipality shall not be liable for
 salary or wages payable to such police  officer,  or  for  the  cost  of
 medical  treatment  or  hospital  care furnished after such date as such
 health authorities or physician shall certify that such injured or  sick
 police  officer  has recovered and is physically able to perform [his or
 her] THEIR regular duties.  Any injured or sick police officer who shall
 refuse to accept medical treatment or hospital care or shall  refuse  to
 permit  medical  inspections  as  [herein]  authorized  IN THIS SECTION,
 including examinations pursuant to  subdivision  two  of  this  section,
 shall  be  deemed  to  have  waived [his or her] THEIR rights under this
 section in respect to expenses for medical treatment  or  hospital  care
 rendered and for salary or wages payable after such refusal.
   Notwithstanding  any  provision  of law to the contrary, a provider of
 medical treatment or hospital care furnished pursuant to the  provisions
 of  this  section  shall not collect or attempt to collect reimbursement
 for such treatment or care from any such police officer, a member  of  a
 police  force  of  any county, city, any such advanced ambulance medical
 technician, any such detention officer or any such  detective-investiga-
 tor  or  any other such investigator who is a police officer pursuant to
 the provisions of the criminal procedure law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  amendments to subdivision 1 of section 207-c of the general munici-
 pal law made by section two of this act shall take effect  on  the  same
 date  and  in  the same manner as chapter 628 of the laws of 1991, takes
 effect.