STATE OF NEW YORK
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5578
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to granting
peace officer status to officers and members of the security force of
the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Network
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 85 to read as follows:
3 85. Officers and members of the security force employed by Mary
4 Imogene Bassett Hospital within and directly adjacent to the Mary
5 Imogene Bassett Hospital Campus in Cooperstown, New York, and affiliated
6 hospitals and clinics owned or operated by Mary Imogene Bassett Hospi-
7 tal, and so designated by the board of trustees of the hospital. Such
8 officers shall have only the powers enumerated in section 9.41 of the
9 mental hygiene law and the powers listed in paragraphs (a), (b), (c),
10 (d) and (h) of subdivision one of section 2.20 of this article;
11 provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to
12 authorize any such officer to carry, possess, repair or dispose of a
13 firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been issued pursuant
14 to section 400.00 of the penal law.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09412-01-9
