STATE OF NEW YORK
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2239
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to authorize municipalities located in the county of Orange to
charge for the cost of providing additional police protection to paid-
admission events
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Any municipality located in the county of Orange is hereby
2 authorized to adopt a local law to provide that the person or persons
3 responsible for either operating, conducting, promoting, or sponsoring
4 any special event, exhibition, or contest to be held in such munici-
5 pality, at which a price for admission or attendance is charged or is to
6 be charged, shall pay the costs incurred by such municipality as a
7 result of providing additional police personnel, if any, beyond the
8 normal number of officers who would have otherwise been on duty. The
9 local law shall identify the type or types of special events, exhibi-
10 tions, or contests for which an activity's operator, conductor, promo-
11 ter, or sponsor may be charged for additional police personnel that is
12 either requested by the operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor or
13 determined to be necessary by the municipality. The local law may also
14 provide that: (a) the operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor of the
15 activity shall complete such forms or applications providing the infor-
16 mation deemed necessary by the municipality to determine whether any
17 additional police personnel should be scheduled for the event; (b) the
18 local law shall not apply to any corporation formed under the not-for-
19 profit corporation law; and (c) the operator, conductor, promoter, or
20 sponsor of the activity shall pay all or a portion of the estimated cost
21 of additional police protection prior to the commencement of the event.
22 § 2. 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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