STATE OF NEW YORK
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7310
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to exempting the
sanitation police of the department of sanitation of the city of New
York from training requirements for security guards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs f and g of subdivision 4 of section 89-n of the
2 general business law, paragraph f as amended and paragraph g as added
3 by chapter 221 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new paragraph h is
4 added to read as follows:
5 f. a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
6 (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision thirty-four of section
7 1.20 of the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such
8 employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
9 a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
10 period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his
11 or her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of
12 an eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the commis-
13 sioner, and provided further, however, that a retired police officer who
14 will be required by his or her security guard employer to carry a
15 firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall provide
16 to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory completion of a
17 forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by the commissioner
18 and, if such firearms training course has not been completed within one
19 year prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an additional
20 eight hour annual firearms in-service training course approved by the
21 commissioner, such training course to be completed at least annually;
22 [or]
23 g. a peace officer as defined in subdivisions two, twenty and twenty-
24 five and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the criminal procedure law who has been retired from such employment for
2 a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that a retired
3 peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a period in
4 excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to his or her
5 security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of an
6 eight hour annual in-service training course approved by the municipal
7 police training council, and provided further, however, that a retired
8 peace officer who will be required by his or her security guard employer
9 to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm
10 shall provide to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory
11 completion of a forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by
12 the municipal police training council and, if such firearms training
13 course has not been completed within one year prior to employment,
14 satisfactory completion of an additional eight hour annual firearms
15 in-service training course approved by the municipal police training
16 council, such training course to be completed at least annually[.]; or
17 h. an officer or member of the sanitation police of the department of
18 sanitation of the city of New York having the powers of a peace officer
19 pursuant to subdivision fifty-nine of section 2.10 of the criminal
20 procedure law.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.