STATE OF NEW YORK
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8949--A
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SHIMSKY, GUNTHER, LUCAS, TAYLOR,
SEAWRIGHT, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, LEVENBERG, COOK,
SEPTIMO, WOERNER, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing the age
of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain
police officers from thirty-five to forty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 58 of the civil
2 service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) he or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of
5 appointment nor more than [thirty-five] forty years of age as of the
6 date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that the
7 maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years of age as set forth
8 in this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant
9 to an examination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen
10 hundred ninety-nine or a police officer in the department of environ-
11 mental conservation, provided, however, that:
12 (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a
13 total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant
14 who has passed his or her [thirty-fifth] fortieth birthday as provided
15 in subdivision ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military
16 law;
17 (ii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall
18 not apply to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of
19 section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously
20 employed by the Buffalo municipal housing authority between January
21 first, two thousand five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who
22 takes the next written exam offered after the effective date of this
23 subparagraph by the city of Buffalo civil service commission for employ-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ment as a police officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or
2 June thirtieth, two thousand six, whichever is later; and
3 (iii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall
4 not apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village
5 police force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible
6 list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates;
7 provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible
8 list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other require-
9 ments of merit and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed
10 the maximum age of [thirty-nine] forty-four;
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
