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Int 0090-2018

Raising the maximum age to apply to become a firefighter.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Fire and Emergency Managementintroduced 2018-01-31

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2018-01-31Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would raise the eligible age for applying to become a firefighter from 29 to 30.

Committee on Fire and Emergency ManagementFire/EMS (non-health-related issues), and Emergency Management Department[ (OEM)].

How it compares

34% of similar bills passed

17 passed · 33 died

This bill: 1429 days in committee

Similar bills: median 530 days · 110 days when passed

Sponsors (11)

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2018-01-31 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2018-01-31 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2018-01-31 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 15-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 24 for the year 1968, is amended to read as follows: 3. Shall have passed his or her [eighteenth] 18th birthday but not his or her [twenty-ninth] 31st birthday on the date of the filing of his or her application for civil service examination and not his or her 36th birthday on the date of his or her commencing employment as a firefighter. [No person who qualifies under this requirement shall be disqualified from membership in the department because of having passed his or her twenty-ninth birthday subsequent to the filing of his or her application.] However no person shall be appointed unless he or she shall have attained his or her twenty-first birthday. �2. This local law takes effect immediately. BC LS 3018/Int. 1221-2016 LS 900 12/22/17