Int 2297-2021
Qualification for service with the police dept.
IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Public Safetyintroduced 2021-04-29Local Law 2022/017
Enacted as Local Law 2022/017.
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Agenda: 2021-04-29Passed: 2022-01-09Enacted: 2022-01-09
Summary
This bill would prohibit a person from serving with the Police Department if such person has previously been dismissed from a police force for misconduct, or has resigned from a police force during an investigation for misconduct. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services would not permit a candidate to take a civil service exam for a position with the Police Department if such candidate does not meet this qualification.
Committee on Public Safety — Police Department, Civilian Complaint Review Board, and Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, courts, legal services, District Attorneys, and the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
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Sponsors (9)
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2021-04-29 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2021-04-29 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2021-11-22 · Committee on Public Safety
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2021-11-22 · Committee on Public Safety
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2021-12-08 · Committee on Public Safety
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2021-12-08 · Committee on Public Safety
ActionAmended by Committee
2021-12-08 · Committee on Public Safety
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2021-12-08 · Committee on Public Safety
AdvancedApproved by Council
2021-12-09 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2021-12-09 · City Council
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2022-01-09 · Administration
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2022-01-10 · City Council
Votes (10)
Aye (10)
Fernando Cabrera Adrienne E. AdamsJustin L. BrannanVanessa L. GibsonRobert F. HoldenCarlos MenchacaI. Daneek MillerKeith Powers Kevin C. RileyYdanis A. Rodriguez
Heard at (4)
City Council · 2021-12-09 · 1:30 PM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Public Safety · 2021-12-08 · 2:00 PM · REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1)
Committee on Public Safety · 2021-11-22 · 10:30 AM · REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 2)
City Council · 2021-04-29 · 1:30 PM · - REMOTE HEARING (VIRTUAL ROOM 1) -
Attachments (19)
- Summary of Int. No. 2297
- Int. No. 2297
- April 29, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-29-21
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 29, 2021
- Committee Report 11/22/21
- Hearing Testimony 11/22/21
- Hearing Transcript 11/22/21
- Proposed Int. No. 2297-A - 12/2/21
- Committee Report 12/8/21
- Hearing Transcript 12/8/21
- Committee Report - Stated Meeting
- December 9, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 12-9-21
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - December 9, 2021
- Int. No. 2297-A (FINAL)
- Fiscal Impact Statement
- Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
- Local Law 17
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 14-109 of chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 23 for the year 1998, is amended to read as follows:
a. Only persons shall be appointed or reappointed to membership in the police force or continue to hold membership therein, who are citizens of the United and who have never been convicted of a felony, and who can read and write understandably the English language. Skilled officers of experience may be appointed for temporary detective duty who are not residents of the city. Only persons shall be appointed police officers who shall be at the date of the filing of an application for civil service examination less than thirty-five years of age, except, that every person who, as of the fifteenth day of April 1997, satisfied all other requirements for admission to the New York city police department academy shall be admitted to such academy and shall be eligible for appointment as a police officer, subject to the provisions of the civil service law and any applicable provisions of the charter, notwithstanding that such person was thirty-five years of age or older on the fifteenth day of April 1997. Persons who shall have been members of the force, and shall have been dismissed therefrom, shall not be reappointed. Consistent with subdivision 4 of section 50 of the civil service law and section 813 of the charter, a person who has been a member of any police force shall not be appointed as a member of the force if such person was dismissed from such other police force due to misconduct or resigned while being investigated pursuant to a charge of misconduct. Persons who are appointed as police trainees, after examination in accordance with the civil service law and the rules of the commissioner of citywide administrative services and who have satisfactorily completed service as such trainees, may likewise be appointed as police officers without further written examination, provided that they shall have passed a medical examination at the end of their required trainee period. Persons appointed as police trainees shall not be considered members of the uniformed force of the department.
� 2. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.
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LS #15287/15303
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