New York S 1449: Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer

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S01449 Summary:

BILL NOS01449 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04624

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SPONSORBORRELLO

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COSPNSRHELMING, OBERACKER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §58, Civ Serv L; amd §215, Exec L

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Eliminates the maximum age for taking the civil service examination for appointment as a police officer or as an environmental conservation officer.

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BILL NOS01449 

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01/10/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1449

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. BORRELLO, HELMING, OBERACKER -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Civil Service and Pensions

 AN ACT to amend the civil service law and the executive law, in relation
 to eliminating the maximum age limitation for appointment as a police
 officer or as an environmental conservation officer

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 58 of the civil
 2 service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 (a) [he or she] such person is not less than twenty years of age as of
 5 the date of appointment [nor more than thirty-five years of age as of
 6 the date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that
 7 the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years of age as set forth in
 8 this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant to
 9 an examination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred
 10 ninety-nine or a police officer in the department of environmental
 11 conservation, provided, however, that:
 12 (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a
 13 total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant
 14 who has passed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in subdivi-
 15 sion ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military law;
 16 (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
 17 to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section
 18 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously employed by the
 19 Buffalo municipal housing authority between January first, two thousand
 20 five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who takes the next writ-
 21 ten exam offered after the effective date of this subparagraph by the
 22 city of Buffalo civil service commission for employment as a police

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04483-01-5

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 1 officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or June thirtieth, two
 2 thousand six, whichever is later; and
 3 (iii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not
 4 apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village police
 5 force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible list
 6 has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided,
 7 however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such
 8 county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit
 9 and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed the maximum age
 10 of thirty-nine];
 11 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 58 of the civil service law, as amended
 12 by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 13 2. The provisions of this section shall not prevent any county, city,
 14 town, village, housing authority, transit authority, police district or
 15 the department of environmental conservation from setting more restric-
 16 tive requirements of eligibility for its police officers[, except the
 17 maximum age to be a police officer as provided in paragraph (a) of
 18 subdivision one of this section].
 19 § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 58 of the civil service law, as sepa-
 20 rately amended by chapters 375 and 397 of the laws of 1990, paragrap