Assembly Bill A1870

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides that candidates who have provided firefighting service may deduct up to a maximum of six years from their age for purposes of meeting the age requirements

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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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2017-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §58, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3625
2011-2012: A3154
2013-2014: A2460
2015-2016: A2296
2019-2020: A946
2021-2022: A5288
2023-2024: A2378
2025-2026: A130

2017-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that candidates who have provided firefighting service may deduct up to a maximum of six years from their age for purposes of meeting the age requirements.

2017-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1870
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CROUCH, FINCH, GIGLIO -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to age eligibility of
   candidates for promotion to provisional or permanent  appointments  as
   police officers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  THE MAXIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT ESTABLISHED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION, FOR EXAMINATION OR FOR APPOINTMENT OR PROMOTION TO, SUCH PROVI-
 SIONAL OR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN POLICE OFFICERS,  THE  PERIOD
 OF  SERVICE  AS A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER AS SUCH IS DEFINED BY THE DUTIES
 AND ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION  FIVE  OF  THE
 VOLUNTEER  FIREFIGHTERS' BENEFIT LAW AND THE SAME SUCH DUTIES AND ACTIV-
 ITIES PERFORMED FOR A  SPECIALIZED  TEAM  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINE-BB OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW
 FOR WHICH THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER DOES NOT RECEIVE ANY REMUNERATION OR
 A GRATUITY, IF SUCH SERVICE OTHERWISE FALLS  WITHIN  THE  DEFINITION  OF
 SERVICE  AS  A  FIREFIGHTER,  OF  A  CANDIDATE  OR ELIGIBLE SHALL NOT BE
 INCLUDED IN COMPUTING THE AGE OF SUCH  CANDIDATE  OR  ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE
 PURPOSES  OF  SUCH  EXAMINATION  OR  APPOINTMENT OR PROMOTION; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT NEITHER SHALL THE TOTAL TIME DEDUCTED HEREUNDER IN COMPUT-
 ING THE AGE OF A CANDIDATE OR ELIGIBLE EXCEED SIX YEARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04527-01-7

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