Bill Text: NY S00273 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes educational institutions to agree to pay all or a portion of the salaries and compensation payable to municipal school crossing guards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00273 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00273-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          273
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the  general municipal law, in relation  to  authorizing
         educational  institutions  to  pay  the  salaries  and compensation of
         school crossing guards
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 208-a of the general municipal law, as amended by
    2  chapter 131 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 208-a. School guards.  The duly constituted authorities of any city,
    4  town, or village or any county police department or police district  may
    5  designate,  authorize  and  appoint  such  a  number  of persons as such
    6  authority shall deem necessary, and at such salaries as  such  authority
    7  shall  deem  advisable,  as  school crossing guards to aid in protecting
    8  school children going to and from school, and church crossing guards  to
    9  aid  in  protecting persons going to and from places of worship, and for
   10  such purpose shall have power to control vehicular traffic  within  such
   11  municipality.    A  PUBLIC SCHOOL, SCHOOL DISTRICT, BOARD OF COOPERATIVE
   12  EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND ANY OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL  INSTI-
   13  TUTION  MAY  ENTER  INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH ANY CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE OR
   14  ANY COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT OR POLICE DISTRICT WHEREBY SUCH EDUCATIONAL
   15  INSTITUTION PAYS ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE SALARIES AND COMPENSATION  OF
   16  THE  SCHOOL  CROSSING  GUARDS PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE STUDENTS OF SUCH
   17  INSTITUTION.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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