New York S 3882: Establishes maximum age requirements for New York city correctional officers

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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3882
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
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 Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 9-117.2 to read as follows:
3 § 9-117.2 Requirements for appointments of uniformed force of the
4 department of correction. a. The commissioner of correction shall not
5 appoint any person as a uniformed correction officer of the department
6 of correction unless such person is not less than twenty-one years of
7 age as of the date of appointment nor more than thirty-five years of age
8 as of the date when the applicant is appointed or eligible to compete in
9 a promotion examination pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision b of
10 section 9-117 of this chapter.
11 b. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or affect the
12 existing authority of the mayor and commissioner to appoint non-uni-
13 formed persons, whose duties include overall security of the department
14 of correction, to positions of authority.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law and shall apply to appointments established on or
17 after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09919-01-9