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This bill sets minimum and maximum age limits for new appointments of New York City correctional officers.
Why it matters
Limits the age range for new correction officer hires to 21–35 years old. , which could affect the overall demographics, experience levels, and physical capacity of the workforce, possibly prioritizing younger candidates and excluding older applicants with different skill sets.
May impact recruitment and retention strategies. for the Department of Correction, potentially narrowing the pool of eligible candidates and requiring new outreach or training efforts to ensure enough qualified applicants.
Specifically exempts non-uniformed leadership positions from these age limits. , allowing the mayor and commissioner to continue appointing older or younger individuals with specialized expertise to key security roles, which could maintain flexibility in high-level staffing.
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Set Correction Officer Age Limits
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
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STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing maximum age requirements for New York city correctional officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 9-117.2 to read as follows:
§ 9-117.2 Requirements for appointments of uniformed force of the department of correction. a. The commissioner of correction shall not appoint any person as a uniformed correction officer of the department of correction unless such person is not less than twenty-one years of age as of the date of appointment nor more than thirty-five years of age as of the date when the applicant is appointed or eligible to compete in a promotion examination pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision a of section 9-117 of this chapter.
b. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or affect the existing authority of the mayor and commissioner to appoint non-uniformed persons, whose duties include overall security of the department of correction, to positions of authority.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law and shall apply to appointments established on or after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09310-01-7
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