Requires members of the metropolitan transportation authority police force to wear body cameras and for such camera to be on at all times during the officer's shift; directs the chief of the metropolitan transportation authority police force to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to such body cameras.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6793--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KRUEGER, SALAZAR -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation
in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
members of the metropolitan transportation authority police force to
wear body cameras
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1266-h of the public authorities
2 law, as added by chapter 327 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The authority is hereby authorized and empowered, to provide and
5 maintain an authority police department and a uniformed authority police
6 force. Each member of such uniformed police force shall be a "police
7 officer" for the purposes of the criminal procedure law, with all of the
8 powers of such police officers thereunder and subject to the same juris-
9 dictional provisions on the exercise of that power as set forth in such
10 law. Each police officer shall be assigned and required to wear during
11 his or her shift a body-worn camera which shall be capable of both audio
12 and video recording and shall be on at all times during the officer's
13 shift. The geographical area of employment of such police officers for
14 the purposes of the criminal procedure law shall embrace the metropol-
15 itan commuter transportation district as defined in section twelve
16 hundred sixty-two of this title. Such department and force shall have
17 the power, in and about any or all of the facilities owned, occupied
18 and/or operated by the authority and its subsidiary corporations, the
19 New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, and the triborough
20 bridge and tunnel authority, as determined in the discretion of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 authority, to enforce and prevent violation of all laws and ordinances.
2 Nothing herein shall confer upon the authority police force or upon
3 their collective negotiations representatives exclusive jurisdiction or
4 claim over the exercise of police power or security work on behalf of
5 the authority and its subsidiary corporations, the New York city transit
6 authority and its subsidiaries, and the triborough bridge and tunnel
7 authority. Nothing herein shall limit the authority and its subsidiary
8 corporations, the New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries,
9 and the triborough bridge and tunnel authority from continuing to rely
10 on local police for police services. However, traditional police func-
11 tions previously performed by the Long Island Rail Road Company and/or
12 the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company police force shall continue to
13 be performed by the authority police forces.
14 § 2. Rules and regulations. The chief of the metropolitan transporta-
15 tion authority police shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may
16 be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
