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STATE OF NEW YORK |
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IN ASSEMBLY |
February 3,
2003
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Introduced
by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend
the criminal procedure law,
in relation to
persons
designated as
peace officers
The People of the
State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 52 of section 2.10
of the
criminal procedure
2 law,
as added by chapter 969 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 52.
Security hospital treatment assistants[,
as so designated by the
5 commissioner of] in the
office of mental health while [transporting
6 persons
convicted of a crime to court, to other
facilities within the
7 jurisdiction of
the office of mental health, or
to any state or local
8 correctional
facility] performing duties in or
arising out of the course
9 of their
employment; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision
10 shall be deemed to authorize such employee
to carry, possess, repair or
11 dispose
of a firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been
12 issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the
first of November next succeed-
14 ing the date on
which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics
(underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01316-01-3
