Assembly Bill A1868

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Waives citizenship requirement for New York city police officers and firefighters for persons who have served in the armed forces of the U.S.

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A1868 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง14-109 & 15-103, NYC Ad Cd

2009-A1868 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives citizenship requirement from the qualifications for New York city police officers and firefighters for persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States.

2009-A1868 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1868

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Cities

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
  relation  to  removing citizenship from the required qualifications of
  police officers and firefighters

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision a of section 14-109 of the administrative code
of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 23 of  the  city
of New York for the year 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  a. Only persons shall be appointed or reappointed to membership in the
police force or continue to hold membership therein, who are citizens of
the United States and who have never been convicted of a felony, and who
can read and write understandably the English language; PROVIDED, HOWEV-
ER,  THAT  THE  CITIZENSHIP  REQUIREMENT SHALL BE WAIVED FOR PERSONS WHO
HAVE SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES.  Skilled  officers
of  experience may be appointed for temporary detective duty who are not
residents of the city. Only persons shall be appointed  police  officers
who  shall  be  at  the  date  of THE filing of an application for civil
service examination less than thirty-five years  of  age,  except,  that
every  person  who, as of the fifteenth day of April 1997, satisfied all
other requirements for admission to the New York city police  department
academy  shall  be  admitted  to  such academy and shall be eligible for
appointment as a police officer, subject to the provisions of the  civil
service  law and any applicable provisions of the charter, notwithstand-
ing that such person was thirty-five  years  of  age  or  older  on  the
fifteenth  day of April 1997. Persons who shall have been members of the
force, and shall have been  dismissed  therefrom,  shall  not  be  reap-
pointed. Persons who are appointed as police trainees, after examination
in  accordance  with  the civil service law and the rules of the commis-
sioner of citywide administrative services and who  have  satisfactorily

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05522-01-9

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