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- Signed chap.480
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.550
- Substituted for A11394
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1254
- Referred to rules
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Relates to the residence of peace officers employed as fire protection inspectors, urban park rangers and traffic enforcement agents level IV in N.Y. city
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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BILL NUMBER:S8273
Title of bill
An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to the residence of peace officers employed as fire protection inspectors, urban park rangers and traffic enforcement agents level IV by a city with a population over one million
Summary of specific provisions
This bill would amend the Public Officers Law to allow the hiring and continued employment of fire protection inspectors, urban park rangers and traffic enforcement agents level IV, by a city with a population over one million so long as the employee has two years of service with the city and resides in a New York county that is contiguous with the employing municipality or contiguous to such contiguous county.
Justification
The provisions allowing residence in a contiguous county are modeled on existing provisions of the Public Officers Law allowing members of municipal sanitation, fire, and corrections departments, and departments of health in any city over one million, to reside in a contiguous county. The same standards should apply to fire protection inspectors, urban park rangers and traffic enforcement agents level IV, who also find the costs of housing prohibitive and want the opportunity to raise their children in a less dense environment than the urban settings of municipal centers. In 2009, the City of New York amended its residency requirement in Local Law 10 of 2009 to allow similarly relaxed residency requirements - i.e., two years of service with the city of New York and residency in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Bronx, Richmond, Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or Putnam - to dozens of titles represented by the same collective bargaining agent that represents these titles. Because these titles also hold peace officer status, however, Local Law 10 did not grant them equal rights because of § 3-b of the Public Officers Law, which requires peace officers to be residents of the same county as the mayor, sheriff or other appointing official. This bill would simply give these titles the same opportunities as other employees of the city of New York, as well as members of municipal sanitation, fire, and corrections departments, and health departments in any city over one million.
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Effective date
Immediately.
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