Bill Text: NY A00458 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates certain medical providers employed by a municipal police department, while deployed with the special weapons and tactics team, as peace officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A00458 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00458-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           458
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RODRIGUEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  designating
          physicians  employed  by  a municipal police department while deployed
          with the special weapons and tactics team, as peace officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 84 to read as follows:
     3    84. A licensed physician employed by a  municipal  police  department,
     4  while  deployed  with  the  special  weapons  and tactics team, and when
     5  performing their duties; provided, however, that nothing in this  subdi-
     6  vision  shall  be  deemed  to  authorize such officer to carry, possess,
     7  repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate  license  therefor
     8  has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04700-01-7