STATE OF NEW YORK
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2218
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to granting
peace officer status to officers and members of the security force of
Arnot Health, Inc.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 86 to read as follows:
3 86. Officers and members of the security force employed by Arnot
4 Health, Inc. The geographic area of employment for peace officers
5 employed by Arnot Health, Inc. shall include any public street and side-
6 walk that abuts the grounds, buildings or property of a hospital,
7 medical office building or clinical site owned or operated by Arnot
8 Health, Inc. in Chemung county. Such officers shall only have the
9 powers listed in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of subdivision one of
10 section 2.20 of this article, as well as the power to detain an individ-
11 ual for a reasonable period of time while awaiting the arrival of law
12 enforcement, provided that the officer has actual knowledge, or probable
13 cause to believe, that such individual has committed an offense;
14 provided however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
15 authorize such officer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm
16 unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant to
17 section 400.00 of the penal law.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05434-01-3
