STATE OF NEW YORK
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10400--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to residency
requirements for peace officers employed by Cornell University
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 59 to read as follows:
3 59. In respect to peace officers employed by Cornell university, and
4 assigned to the Ithaca campus, pursuant to section fifty-seven hundred
5 nine of the education law, the provisions of this section requiring a
6 person to be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corpo-
7 ration of the state for which he or she shall be chosen or within which
8 his or her official functions are required to be exercised shall not
9 prevent a person from serving as a peace officer for Cornell university
10 or as a special deputy sheriff, and assigned to the Ithaca campus, as
11 defined in subdivision forty-two of section 2.10 of the criminal proce-
12 dure law, provided that such person resides in the state of New York.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15973-02-2