S 5253: Designates fire marshals employed in the Long Island Rail Road Company Office of the Fire Marshals as peace officers.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5253 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to designating fire marshals employed in the Long Island Rail Road Company Office of the Fire Marshals as peace officers 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 88 to read as follows: 3 88. Fire marshals employed in the Long Island Rail Road Company Office 4 of the Fire Marshals, when acting pursuant to their special duties in 5 matters arising under the laws relating to fires, the extinguishment 6 thereof and fire perils; provided, however, that nothing in this subdi- 7 vision shall be deemed to authorize such officer to carry, possess, 8 repair or dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license therefor 9 has been issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00978-01-5