Bill Text: NY A10853 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to local governments [A10853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10853-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10853

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fernandez)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance
          on each duly appointed police officer

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

     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 52-a to read as follows:
     3    §  52-a.  Liability  insurance for police officers. Each city, county,
     4  town, village, authority or agency shall obtain and  continuously  main-
     5  tain a policy of liability insurance on each duly appointed police offi-
     6  cer of such municipality, authority or agency in an amount not less than
     7  two  hundred thousand dollars for covering civil rights violation claims
     8  that arise from the performance of such  officer's  powers  and  duties.
     9  Such  insurance  shall  be  used  to pay any legal fees and/or judgments
    10  associated with such claims.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16755-01-0