Provides that the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer of any political subdivision maintaining a police department serving a population of three thousand or less if the eligible list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit and fitness set forth in the civil service law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1273
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to eligibility for
permanent appointment of certain police officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivi-
2 sion 1 of section 58 of the civil service law, as amended by chapter 244
3 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new subparagraph (iv) is added to
4 read as follows:
5 (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
6 to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section
7 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously employed by the
8 Buffalo municipal housing authority between January first, two thousand
9 five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who takes the next writ-
10 ten exam offered after the effective date of this subparagraph by the
11 city of Buffalo civil service commission for employment as a police
12 officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or June thirtieth, two
13 thousand six, whichever is later; [and]
14 (iii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not
15 apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village police
16 force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible list
17 has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided,
18 however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such
19 county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit
20 and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed the maximum age
21 of thirty-nine; and
22 (iv) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
23 to any police officer of any political subdivision maintaining a police
24 department serving a population of three thousand or less if the eligi-
25 ble list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 provided, however, the police officer meets all other requirements of
2 merit and fitness set forth by this chapter;
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
