Exempts certain officers of the department of correction and the department of sanitation of the city of New York from training requirements for security guards; designates correction officers of New York city as peace officers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1594
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to exempting
certain officers of the departments of correction and sanitation of
the city of New York from training requirements for security guards;
and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating
correction officers of New York city as peace officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs a, f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of
2 the general business law, paragraphs a and f as amended and paragraph g
3 as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new para-
4 graph h is added to read as follows:
5 a. a correction officer of any state correctional facility or a member
6 of the uniformed correction force of the New York city department of
7 correction having the powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision
8 twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
9 f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
10 (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
11 1.20 of the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such
12 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
13 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
14 period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his
15 or her] such retired police officer's security guard employer of [his or
16 her] their satisfactory completion of an eight hour annual in-service
17 training course approved by the commissioner, and provided further,
18 however, that a retired police officer who will be required by [his or
19 her] such retired police officer's security guard employer to carry a
20 firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
21 to such employer proof of [his or her] such retired police officer's
22 satisfactory completion of a forty-seven hour firearms training course
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 approved by the commissioner and, if such firearms training course has
2 not been completed within one year prior to such employment, satisfac-
3 tory completion of an additional eight hour annual firearms in-service
4 training course approved by the commissioner, such training course to be
5 completed at least annually; [or]
6 g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
7 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
8 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
9 a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that a retired
10 peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
11 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to [his or her]
12 such retired peace officer's security guard employer of [his or her]
13 their satisfactory completion of an eight hour annual in-service train-
14 ing course approved by the municipal police training council, and
15 provided further, however, that a retired peace officer who will be
16 required by [his or her] such retired peace officer's security guard
17 employer to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have access to a
18 firearm shall provide to such employer proof of [his or her] such
19 retired peace officer's satisfactory completion of a forty-seven hour
20 firearms training course approved by the municipal police training coun-
21 cil and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within
22 one year prior to employment, satisfactory completion of an additional
23 eight hour annual firearms in-service training course approved by the
24 municipal police training council, such training course to be completed
25 at least annually[.]; or
26 h. an officer or member of the sanitation police of the department of
27 sanitation of the city of New York having the powers of a peace officer
28 pursuant to subdivision fifty-nine of section 2.10 of the criminal
29 procedure law.
30 § 2. Subdivision 25 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, as
31 amended by section 70 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
32 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
33 25. Officials, as designated by the commissioner of the department of
34 corrections and community supervision pursuant to rules of the depart-
35 ment, and correction officers of any state or New York city correctional
36 facility or of any penal correctional institution.
37 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
