Police Groups Binding Arbitration Law 2002

* 2.  Public  employers  are  hereby  empowered  to enter into written

  agreements with recognized or certified employee  organizations  setting

  forth  procedures  to be invoked in the event of disputes which reach an

  impasse in the course of collective negotiations.  Such  agreements  may

  include  the  undertaking  by  each party to submit unresolved issues to

  impartial arbitration. In the  absence  or  upon  the  failure  of  such

  procedures,  public employers and employee organizations may request the

  board to render assistance as provided in this section, or the board may

  render such assistance on its own motion,  as  provided  in  subdivision

  three  of  this  section,  or,  in  regard to officers or members of any

  organized fire department, or any unit  of  the  public  employer  which

  previously  was  a  part  of  an organized fire department whose primary

  mission includes the prevention and control of  aircraft  fires,  police

  force or police department of any county, city, town, village or fire or

  police  district, or detective-investigators employed in the office of a

  district attorney of a  county  not  contained  within  a  city  with  a

  population of one million or more, or in regard to any organized unit of

  troopers,  commissioned  or  noncommissioned officers of the division of

  state police, or in regard to investigators,  senior  investigators  and

  investigator  specialists  of the division of state police, or in regard

  to members  of  collective  negotiating  units  designated  as  security

  services  and  security  supervisors  who are police officers or who are

  employed by the  state  department  of  correctional  services  and  are

  designated  as  peace  officers  pursuant  to subdivision twenty-five of

  section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or in regard to  members  of

  the collective negotiating unit designated as the agency law enforcement

  services   unit   who   are  police  officers  pursuant  to  subdivision

  thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, or in  regard

  to  organized  units  of  deputy  sheriffs  who  are engaged directly in

  criminal law enforcement activities that aggregate more than  fifty  per

  centum  of  their  service  as  certified  by the county sheriff and are

  police officers pursuant to subdivision thirty-four of section  1.20  of

  the criminal procedure law as certified by the municipal police training

  council   or   Suffolk   county  correction  officers,  as  provided  in

  subdivision four of this section.