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                                         6063

                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                   February 24, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes

       AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to the peace
         officer powers of officers and members of the sanitation police of the
         department of sanitation of the city of New York

         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  59 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
    2  law, as added by chapter 931 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    59. [Officers and] RETIRED AND ACTIVE members of the sanitation police
    5  of  the department of sanitation of the city of New York, duly appointed
    6  and designated as peace officers by such department[; provided, however,
    7  that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to authorize such offi-
    8  cer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the  appro-
    9  priate  license  therefor  has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of
   10  the penal law].   Provided, further, that nothing  in  this  subdivision
   11  shall  be  deemed  to  apply  to  officers and members of the sanitation
   12  police regularly and exclusively assigned to enforcement of such  city's
   13  residential recycling laws.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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