STATE OF NEW YORK
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3300
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs of the city of New York
as police officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 34 of section 1.20 of the
2 criminal procedure law, as amended by section 13 of part BBB of chapter
3 59 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Sheriffs, under-sheriffs and deputy sheriffs [of counties outside
5 of New York City where such department is certified in accordance with
6 paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section eight hundred forty-six-h of
7 the executive law];
8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, as
9 amended by chapter 969 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 2. [The sheriff, undersheriff and deputy sheriffs of New York city and
12 sworn] Sworn officers of the Westchester county department of public
13 safety services appointed after January thirty-first, nineteen hundred
14 eighty-three to the title of public safety officer and who perform the
15 functions previously performed by a Westchester county deputy sheriff on
16 or prior to such date.
17 § 3. 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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