Grants additional credit on promotional examinations for police officers and firefighters who are residents of a city with a population between 250,000 and one million upon enactment of a local law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 1191 A. 3482
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2009
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. THOMPSON, ONORATO, PARKER, SAVINO --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to promotional exam
credits for police officers and firefighters in certain cities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 52 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
3 16. Credit for resident police officers and firefighters. (a) A city
4 with a population between two hundred fifty thousand and one million is
5 authorized to adopt a local law which would grant residents of such city
6 additional credits in promotional examinations for a police officer or
7 firefighter.
8 (b) In the event of the enactment of a local law pursuant to paragraph
9 (a) of this subdivision, on an eligible list resulting from a promo-
10 tional examination for a police officer or firefighter, the names of
11 eligibles shall be entered in the order of their respective final earned
12 ratings on examination, with the name of the eligible with the highest
13 final earned rating at the head of such list; provided however, that for
14 the purposes of determining final earned ratings, a person who is a
15 resident of such city shall be entitled to receive five points addi-
16 tional credit. Such additional credit shall be added to the final earned
17 rating after such person has qualified in the promotional examination
18 and shall be granted only at the time of establishment of the resulting
19 eligible list.
20 (c) Any candidate who believes that he or she is entitled to addi-
21 tional credit as provided in this section may make an application for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 such additional credit at any time between the date of application for
2 the examination and the date of the establishment of the eligible list.
3 Such candidate shall provide appropriate documentary proof of residency
4 as required by such city of residency.
5 (d) The additional credit provided by this section shall be in addi-
6 tion to any additional credit that may be granted pursuant to any gener-
7 al, special or local law.
8 (e) Any local law adopted pursuant to this section shall be applicable
9 only to promotional examinations for a police officer or firefighter of
10 such city which are held at least thirty days after the adoption of such
11 local law.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
