Grants peace officer status to certain security officers employed by Rochester Regional Health or its subsidiaries, on or adjacent to the grounds, buildings or property owned, controlled, or administered by Rochester Regional Health or its subsidiaries.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8936
IN SENATE
April 29, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to granting
peace officer status to certain security officers employed by Roches-
ter Regional Health or its subsidiaries
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 86 to read as follows:
3 86. Officers and members of the security force employed by Rochester
4 Regional Health. Peace officers employed by Rochester Regional Health or
5 its subsidiaries shall have the powers of peace officers within the
6 geographic area of employment of the grounds or premises owned,
7 controlled or administered by Rochester Regional Health or its subsid-
8 iaries, on any public street and sidewalk that abuts the grounds, build-
9 ings or property of such geographic area, and beyond such geographic
10 area upon the request of the chief law enforcement officer of the local
11 law enforcement jurisdiction or his or her designee, for the purpose of
12 transporting an individual who has been arrested in accordance with
13 section 140.27 of this chapter and where no local law enforcement offi-
14 cer is available for transporting such individual in a timely manner.
15 Such peace officers shall only have the powers listed in paragraphs (a),
16 (b), (c), (d), (e), and (h) of subdivision one of section 2.20 of this
17 article, and the power to detain an individual for a reasonable period
18 of time while awaiting the arrival of law enforcement, provided that
19 such peace officer has actual knowledge, or probable cause to believe,
20 that such individual has committed an offense; provided however, that
21 nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to authorize such officer to
22 carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate
23 license therefor has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal
24 law.
25 § 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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