Bill Text: NY S08736 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Syracuse regional airport authority to designate its appointed security officers as peace officers or police officers pursuant to the criminal procedure law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9819A [S08736 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08736-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8736--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 5, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and   Commissions  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
          the  Syracuse  regional  airport  authority to provide and maintain an
          authority police department and a uniformed authority police force

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 2799-ggg-1 to read as follows:
     3    § 2799-ggg-1. Authority police force. The authority is hereby  author-
     4  ized  and  empowered to provide and maintain an authority police depart-
     5  ment and a  uniformed  authority  police  force.  Each  member  of  such
     6  uniformed  police  force  shall  be  a  "police officer" as that term is
     7  defined in paragraph (e) of subdivision thirty-four of section  1.20  of
     8  the  criminal procedure law, with all of the powers of such police offi-
     9  cers thereunder and subject to the same jurisdictional provisions on the
    10  exercise of that power as set forth in such law. The  geographical  area
    11  of  employment  of such police officers for the purposes of the criminal
    12  procedure law shall be limited to  the  buildings  and  grounds  of  the
    13  authority.  Such department and force shall have the power, in and about
    14  any or all of the facilities owned,  occupied  and/or  operated  by  the
    15  authority,  to enforce and prevent violation of all laws. Nothing herein
    16  shall confer upon the authority police force or  upon  their  collective
    17  negotiations  representatives  exclusive  jurisdiction or claim over the
    18  exercise of police power or security work on behalf  of  the  authority.
    19  Nothing  herein  shall  limit  the  authority from continuing to rely on
    20  local police for police services.  However, traditional police functions
    21  previously performed by the city of  Syracuse  police  department  shall
    22  continue to be performed by the authority police force.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15150-03-2