What's happening
This bill allows Orange County municipalities to require paid-admission event organizers to cover the costs of extra police protection.
Why it matters
Shifts financial responsibility for extra police protection from taxpayers to the organizers of paid-admission events. , potentially reducing the public burden for private or commercial activities that require heightened security.
Gives Orange County municipalities more control and flexibility. to determine which types of events and circumstances warrant charging organizers for additional police presence, allowing local adaptation to specific community needs and event risks.
Exempts not-for-profit organizations from these charges. , which could encourage the continuation of charitable or community events without additional financial barriers, while focusing the new costs on for-profit or commercial event operators.
Requires event organizers to provide necessary information and possibly pay estimated costs upfront. , enabling municipalities to plan police staffing more effectively and ensure costs are covered before events take place, reducing the risk of unpaid municipal expenses.
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Charge Events for Extra Police
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Sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Held for consideration in local governments
- Referred to local governments
- Referred to local governments
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5564
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to authorize municipalities located in the county of Orange to charge for the cost of providing additional police protection to paidadmission events
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Any municipality located in the county of Orange is hereby authorized to adopt a local law to provide that the person or persons responsible for either operating, conducting, promoting, or sponsoring any special event, exhibition, or contest to be held in such municipality, at which a price for admission or attendance is charged or is to be charged, shall pay the costs incurred by such municipality as a result of providing additional police personnel, if any, beyond the normal number of officers who would have otherwise been on duty. The local law shall identify the type or types of special events, exhibitions, or contests for which an activity's operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor may be charged for additional police personnel that is either requested by the operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor or determined to be necessary by the municipality. The local law may also provide that: (a) the operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor of the activity shall complete such forms or applications providing the information deemed necessary by the municipality to determine whether any additional police personnel should be scheduled for the event; (b) the local law shall not apply to any corporation formed under the not-forprofit corporation law; and (c) the operator, conductor, promoter, or sponsor of the activity shall pay all or a portion of the estimated cost of additional police protection prior to the commencement of the event.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08910-01-7
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