Bill Text: NY S05236 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Grants peace officer status to animal control officers of the county of Schuyler; defines "animal control officer".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-26 - PRINT NUMBER 5236A [S05236 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05236-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5236--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to granting peace officer status to animal control officers of the county of Schuyler The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 87 to read as follows: 3 87. Employees of the county of Schuyler serving as animal control 4 officers for such county; provided, however, that nothing in this subdi- 5 vision shall be deemed to authorize such animal control officers to 6 carry, possess, repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate 7 license therefor has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal 8 law. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "animal control 9 officer" shall have the same meaning as defined by section twenty-one 10 hundred forty of the public health law. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09826-03-4
