Bill Text: NY A09962 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs local law enforcement agencies in municipalities authorizing an auxiliary police force by local law to provide retirement service identification cards to auxiliary police officers who retire with 10 or more years of service or who are injured in the course of duty and unable to continue duty due to such injury.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to local governments [A09962 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09962-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9962

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT in relation to the issuance of retirement service identification
          cards to auxiliary police officers

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

     1    Section  1.  For  the purposes of this act, "auxiliary police officer"
     2  shall mean a member of an auxiliary police  organization  authorized  by
     3  local law.
     4    §  2.  (a) Any person serving or who has served as an auxiliary police
     5  officer in an auxiliary police organization in a municipality, including
     6  a city having a population of one million  or  more  persons,  that  has
     7  authorized  the  formation  of  an  auxiliary police force providing for
     8  voluntary participation by auxiliary police  officers  in  a  local  law
     9  enforcement agency shall be entitled to a retirement service identifica-
    10  tion  card  as provided in this act. Such retirement service identifica-
    11  tion card shall be issued by the entity that issues  the  identification
    12  card carried by the auxiliary police officer during such officer's peri-
    13  od of service.
    14    (b)  A  retirement  service  identification card shall be issued to an
    15  auxiliary police officer upon such officer's retirement from the  auxil-
    16  iary police force provided such officer:
    17    (i)  served  as  an  auxiliary  police officer in good standing for at
    18  least ten years prior to retirement; or
    19    (ii) retired as a result of an injury that occurred in the  course  of
    20  the auxiliary police officer's duties for the law enforcement agency and
    21  which  rendered  the  auxiliary  police  officer  permanently  unable to
    22  continue service as an auxiliary police officer.
    23    (c) A retirement service card issued pursuant to this act shall  state
    24  the name of the retired auxiliary police officer, identify the holder of
    25  the card as a retired auxiliary police officer for the appropriate local
    26  law  enforcement  agency, and indicate the years the holder served as an
    27  auxiliary police officer. The retirement service card shall  also  thank
    28  the retired auxiliary police officer for the officer's service.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14815-02-4
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     1    (d)  The cost of a retirement service card issued pursuant to this act
     2  shall be borne by the local law enforcement agency the auxiliary  police
     3  officer  served  with;  provided  that  if  the auxiliary police officer
     4  served with two or more local law enforcement agencies, the cost of  the
     5  retirement  service  card  shall be divided equally between or among the
     6  local law enforcement agencies, unless otherwise agreed by the agencies.
     7    § 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed to grant any pension bene-
     8  fits, entitlement to pension benefits or enrollment in any pension plans
     9  for retired auxiliary police officers.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.