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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  the payment of costs for line of duty injuries 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.  Subdivisions a and b of section 12-127 of the administra-
 tive code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 806 of the laws
 of 1986, are amended to read as follows:
   a. Any member of the uniformed forces of the fire  or  police  depart-
 ments,  INCLUDING  ANY  RETIRED  MEMBER OF SUCH UNIFORMED FORCES, or any
 person employed in  the  department  of  sanitation  in  the  sanitation
 service  classification  of  the  classified  civil service who shall be
 injured while actually employed in the discharge of police orders of his
 or her superior officers in the police station, fire house or sanitation
 section station, as the case may be, or as the result of illness tracea-
 ble directly to the performance of police, fire or sanitation  duty,  as
 the  case  may  be,  or any employee of the department of parks, general
 services, ports and terminals or environmental protection  or  a  person
 employed by the police commissioner as a school crossing guard who shall
 be  injured  while  actually employed in the discharge of duty, shall be
 received by any hospital for care and  treatment  when  such  facts  are
 certified to by the head of the department. Unless otherwise provided in
 this  section,  such  members  shall  be received by any hospital at the
 usual ward patient rates. The bill for such care and treatment  at  such
 rates, when certified by the superintendent or other person in charge of
 such  hospital  and  approved  by  the head of the department concerned,
 shall be paid by the city.
   b.  Any  member  of  the  uniformed  forces  of  the  fire  or  police
 department,  INCLUDING  ANY  RETIRED MEMBER OF SUCH UNIFORMED FORCES, or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07869-01-3
              

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 any person employed in the department of sanitation  in  the  sanitation
 service  classification  of  the  classified  civil  service or a person
 employed by the police commissioner as  a  school  crossing  guard  who,
 while  in  the actual performance of duty, and by reason of the perform-
 ance of such duty and without fault or misconduct on his  or  her  part,
 shall  receive injuries to an extent which may endanger his or her life,
 shall be received by any hospital for care and treatment, and  shall  be
 afforded  such  medical  or  surgical care and hospitalization as may be
 ordered by the chief medical officer of the  respective  departments  in
 conformity  with  the  provisions  of this section. Such medical officer
 shall forthwith notify the comptroller of the care  and  hospitalization
 so  ordered. The rate charged for such care and hospitalization for such
 member or such person shall not exceed the rate charged  any  person  in
 receipt  of  an  income  equal  to  the salary of such member or of such
 person for the same accommodations. The comptroller and the heads of the
 departments affected shall make necessary rules and regulations to carry
 out the provisions of this section.  Upon  certification  by  the  chief
 medical  officer of the department concerned, the bill for such care and
 hospitalization, when certified by the superintendent or other person in
 charge of the hospital and  approved  by  the  head  of  the  department
 concerned, shall be paid by the city.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.