Grants all security hospital treatment assistants peace officer status when acting in the performance of their duties, including but not limited to the transporting of persons charged with a crime and the transporting of persons convicted of a crime.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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747
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT, CALHOUN, FINCH -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to security
hospital treatment assistants peace officer status
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 52 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
2 law, as added by chapter 969 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 52. Security hospital treatment assistants[, as so designated by the
5 commissioner of the office of mental health while] when acting in the
6 performance of their duties, including but not limited to the transport-
7 ing of persons charged with a crime and the transporting of persons
8 convicted of a crime to court, to other facilities within the jurisdic-
9 tion of the office of mental health, or to any state or local correc-
10 tional facility; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision
11 shall be deemed to authorize such employee to carry, possess, repair or
12 dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been
13 issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01626-01-1
