Bill Text: NY S01588 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to members of the police force who use hearing assistance devices and the definition of disabled.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-04 - SIGNED CHAP.341 [S01588 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01588-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1588 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to excluding members of the police force who use hearing assistance devices from the definition of disabled The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 14-122 of the administrative code of the city of 2 New York is amended to read as follows: 3 § 14-122 Relief from active duty due to disability. The commissioner 4 shall have power to relieve from active duty on patrol any member of the 5 police force, who, while in the actual performance of duty and without 6 fault or misconduct on his or her part, shall have become disabled, 7 physically, as a result of injuries or illness attributable thereto, so 8 as to be unfit to perform full police duty, such disability having been 9 certified to by so many of the police surgeons as the commissioner may 10 require. Such member may be assigned to the performance of such light 11 duties as he or she may be qualified to perform. The term "disabled" as 12 used in this section shall not include those members of the police force 13 who can fully perform police duties with the use of a hearing assistance 14 device. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06147-01-9
