S 1982: Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1982 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ASHBY, O'MARA, ROLISON, STEC, WEBB -- 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 the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 209-q of the 2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 735 of the laws of 1988, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local 5 law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nine- 6 teen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis 7 as a police officer of any county, city, town, village or police 8 district unless such person has previously been awarded a certificate by 9 the executive director of the municipal police training council created 10 under article thirty-five of the executive law, attesting to [his] such 11 person's satisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic 12 training program; and every person who is appointed on a temporary basis 13 or for a probationary term or on other than a permanent basis as a 14 police officer of any county, city, town, village or police district 15 shall forfeit [his] their position as such unless [he] such person 16 previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the time prescribed 17 by regulations promulgated by the governor pursuant to section eight 18 hundred forty-two of the executive law, satisfactorily completes, a 19 municipal police basic training program for temporary or probationary 20 police officers and is awarded a certificate by such director attesting 21 thereto. An elected or appointed sheriff or undersheriff shall not be 22 subject to the training requirements of this section. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04728-01-5