STATE OF NEW YORK
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1662--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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.
LBD07218-02-8
