Requires that any person applying for appointment as a fire fighter in civil service be not more than 29 years of age on the date he or she takes the written competitive examination for such appointment, however any time spent on military duty or terminal leave, not to exceed 6 years, shall be subtracted from such age limit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3260
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the maximum age of
certain persons applying for provisional or permanent appointment as
fire fighters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 58-a of the civil service law, as
2 amended by section 1 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of 2013, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this law or any general,
5 special or local law to the contrary, no person shall be eligible for
6 provisional or permanent appointment in the competitive class of the
7 civil service as a fire fighter unless he or she shall:
8 (a) satisfy the basic requirements for education, health and physical
9 fitness established by the state fire administrator pursuant to section
10 one hundred fifty-eight of the executive law; and
11 (b) is not more than twenty-nine years of age on the date he or she
12 takes the written competitive examination for such appointment;
13 provided, however, that the time spent on military duty or on terminal
14 leave, not exceeding a total of seven years shall be subtracted from the
15 age of any applicant who has passed his or her twenty-ninth birthday as
16 provided in subdivision ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the
17 military law.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law and shall apply to an eligible list for appointment in
20 the competitive class of civil service as a fire fighter established on
21 or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08086-01-3
