STATE OF NEW YORK
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8611
IN SENATE
February 21, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to authorizing munic-
ipal and/or authority owned or operated airports to hire and promote
employees on a permanent basis
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 65 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
3 5. Municipal owned and/or operated airports. Notwithstanding any law,
4 rule or regulation to the contrary, municipally owned and/or operated
5 airports including those airports owned and/or operated by a New York
6 public authority may: (a) appoint or promote to a permanent position in
7 the exempt class for titles that are critical airport management and
8 supervisory positions that include but are not limited to airport or
9 authority: director and assistant director; manager or assistant manag-
10 er; aircraft rescue and firefighting chief; aviation finance director;
11 commercial development officer; aviation security, operations responsi-
12 ble for FAR Part 139 compliance; and chief operating officer; whenever
13 there is no appropriate eligible list available for filling a vacancy in
14 the selective exempt class; (b) if such appointee shall be determined by
15 such airport or authority as qualified; and (c) no person shall be
16 appointed, promoted or employed under any title not appropriate to the
17 duties to be performed and, except upon assignment by proper authority
18 during the continuance of a temporary emergency situation, no person
19 shall be assigned to perform the duties of any position unless he or she
20 has been duly appointed, promoted, transferred or reinstated to such
21 position in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the
22 rules prescribed thereunder.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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