Int 0395-2022
Raising the maximum age to apply to become a firefighter.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Fire and Emergency Managementintroduced 2022-05-19
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2022-05-19Passed: 2023-12-31
Summary
This bill would raise the eligible age for applying to become a firefighter from 29 to 30.
Committee on Fire and Emergency Management — Fire/EMS (non-health-related issues), and Emergency Management Department[ (OEM)].
How it compares
34% of similar bills passed
17 passed · 33 died
This bill: 591 days in committee
Similar bills: median 434 days · 110 days when passed
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Sponsors (13)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2022-05-19 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2022-05-19 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2022-05-19 · 1:30 PM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 395
- Int. No. 395
- May 19, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-19-22
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 19, 2022
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 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] 21st birthday.
�2. This local law takes effect immediately.
Session 12
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LS #8582
5/12/22
Session 11
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LS #900
Int. 90-2018