Bill Text: NY A10746 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding the geographical area of employment of university police officers; extends the jurisdiction of New York state university police officers from state university of New York property and abutting roadways to all areas of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-15 - print number 10746a [A10746 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10746
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 16, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law and the education law, in
          relation to expanding the geographical area of employment of universi-
          ty police officers; and to repeal paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of
          section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law relating thereto
          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 34-a of section 1.20 of the
     2  criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 428 of the laws  of  1999,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  [Except  as  provided  in paragraph (d) of this subdivision,] New
     5  York state constitutes the "geographical  area  of  employment"  of  any
     6  police  officer  employed  as  such  by  an agency of the state or by an
     7  authority which functions throughout the  state,  or  a  police  officer
     8  designated by the superintendent of state police pursuant to section two
     9  hundred twenty-three of the executive law;
    10    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
    11  procedure law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is amended
    12  to read as follows:
    13    (a)  [Except as provided in paragraph (d),] New York state constitutes
    14  the "geographical area of employment" of any police officer employed  as
    15  such  by  an  agency  of  the  state  or by an authority which functions
    16  throughout the state;
    17    § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of the criminal
    18  procedure law is REPEALED.
    19    § 4. Paragraph l of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law,
    20  as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 1998, is  amended  to  read  as
    21  follows:
    22    l.  To appoint university police officers who shall have the powers of
    23  police  officers  and  to  remove  such  police  officers  at  pleasure;
    24  provided,  however, that any person appointed a police officer must have
    25  satisfactorily completed or complete within one year of the date of  his
    26  appointment a course of law enforcement training approved by the munici-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  pal  police  training  council in consultation with the university.  [It
     2  shall be the duty of such police officers to preserve law and  order  on
     3  the campuses and other property of the university, including any portion
     4  of a public highway which crosses or abuts such property.]
     5    Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  chancellor, the president of each
     6  state-operated campus of the state university shall enter into a written
     7  agreement with adjoining law enforcement agencies establishing protocols
     8  for the exercise of authority by such university police officer off-cam-
     9  pus, including mutual aid and assistance. Such written  protocols  shall
    10  not  be deemed to supersede the authority of other police officers.  The
    11  provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any of the state  insti-
    12  tutions  and property referred to in section five thousand seven hundred
    13  nine of this chapter.
    14    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    15  the  amendments  to paragraph (a) of subdivision 34-a of section 1.20 of
    16  the criminal procedure law made by section one  of  this  act  shall  be
    17  subject  to  the  expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to
    18  section 3 of chapter 428 of the laws of 1999, as amended, when upon such
    19  date the provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.