STATE OF NEW YORK
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2695--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, O'MARA, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local
Government -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the completion
of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs
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 209-q of the
2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local
5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine-
6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis
7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police
8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by
9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created
10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to his satis-
11 factory completion of an approved municipal police basic training
12 program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis or for a
13 probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a police officer
14 of any county, city, town, village or police district shall forfeit his
15 position as such unless he previously has satisfactorily completed, or
16 within the time prescribed by regulations promulgated by the governor
17 pursuant to section eight hundred forty-two of the executive law, satis-
18 factorily completes, a municipal police basic training program for
19 temporary or probationary police officers and is awarded a certificate
20 by such director attesting thereto. An elected or appointed sheriff or
21 undersheriff shall not be subject to the training requirements of this
22 section.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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