Provides that candidates who have provided firefighting service may deduct up to a maximum of six years from their age for purposes of meeting the age requirements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2378
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDO-
NOUGH, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to age eligibility of
candidates for promotion to provisional or permanent appointments as
police officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. The maximum age requirement established in subdivision one of this
4 section, for examination or for appointment or promotion to, such provi-
5 sional or permanent appointment of certain police officers, the period
6 of service as a volunteer firefighter as such is defined by the duties
7 and activities described in subdivision one of section five of the
8 volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the same such duties and activ-
9 ities performed for a specialized team established pursuant to the
10 provisions of section two hundred nine-bb of the general municipal law
11 for which the volunteer firefighter does not receive any remuneration or
12 a gratuity, if such service otherwise falls within the definition of
13 service as a firefighter, of a candidate or eligible shall not be
14 included in computing the age of such candidate or eligible for the
15 purposes of such examination or appointment or promotion; provided,
16 however, that neither shall the total time deducted hereunder in comput-
17 ing the age of a candidate or eligible exceed six years.
18 § 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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