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This bill requires a minimum number of full-time state park police officers and mandates staffing plans for new state park facilities.
Why it matters
Mandates a specific minimum number of full-time park police statewide. , which could improve public safety and emergency response consistency across all state park facilities, but may also require increased funding and recruitment efforts.
Distributes officers based on each region’s five-year attendance average. , ensuring that busier parks get more resources—this aims for a fairer allocation but may shift officers away from less-trafficked areas.
Requires legislative review of staffing plans before opening new sites. , adding a layer of oversight that could slow new park openings but seeks to guarantee adequate police presence and visitor safety from day one.
Allows temporary redeployment of park police during emergencies. (natural disasters, declared emergencies, mass casualty incidents), which provides flexibility to respond to crises but could temporarily reduce regular coverage in some regions.
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- Referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development
- Referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development
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Require Park Police Staffing
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5254
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in relation to police staffing at certain parks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 3.07 of the parks, recreation and historic preservation law is amended by adding three new subdivisions 3, 4 and 5 to read as follows:
3. The commissioner shall provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public using facilities under its jurisdiction, which shall include ensuring a minimum staff of three hundred eighty-five permanently appointed, full time regional state park police officers at state parks, beaches, campgrounds, historic sites and concert venues. The number of regional state park police officers deployed to each region shall be equivalent to the percentage of each region's five year attendance average.
4. The commissioner shall not open a new state park, beach, campground, historic site or concert venue unless it submits a staffing plan to the legislature that demonstrates there is a sufficient number of regional state park police to provide adequate and appropriate delivery of police services to patrons visiting the new site.
5. The commissioner may redeploy regional state park police officers outside of their assigned region in the case of an emergency. Emergencies are defined as natural disasters, declared emergencies and mass casualty incidents.
§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00285-01-7
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