S3136A-2011 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Authorizes Ronald Martin to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position

Authorizes Ronald Martin to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position as village patrolman.

Sponsor: LIBOUS
Law Section: Policemen

S3136A-2011 Actions

Jun 21, 2012: SUBSTITUTED BY A6830A
Mar 5, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Mar 1, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
Feb 29, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.256
Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
Apr 18, 2011: PRINT NUMBER 3136A
Apr 18, 2011: AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
Feb 9, 2011: REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

S3136A-2011 Meetings

Civil Service and Pensions: Feb 29, 2012

S3136A-2011 Calendars

S3136A-2011 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Civil Service and Pensions - Feb 29, 2012

Ayes (11): Golden, Fuschillo, Hannon, Lanza, Little, Martins, O'Mara, Addabbo, Dilan, Savino, Serrano
Ayes W/R (1): Perkins

S3136A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3136A               REVISED 04/21/11

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to authorize a certain individual to take the competitive civil service
examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment as a
full-time police officer for the village of
Oxford, county of Chenango

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation authorizes the State of New York to allow Ronald
Martin, of the village of Oxford in Chenango County, exemption from
the age requirements of Civil Service Law Section 58.

JUSTIFICATION:
The Civil Service Law requires that a full-time competitive police
officer be no less than twenty years, and no more than thirty-five
years of age. This limits the ability of small municipalities such as
Oxford to locate and hire the best full-time police officers available.

The village of Oxford currently has open a full-time competitive
police officer position.

Ronald Martin (Oxford) is a police Academy graduate who is currently
serving as a part-time police officer in the Oxford village
Department and would qualify as a top-tier candidate for the
available position if the age restriction did not disqualify him. Mr.
Martin has proven himself as an exceptional police officer and is in
great physical shape.

Mr. Martin has a reputation that has earned him the full support of
the village Board along with the Chief of police in the village of
Oxford, yet the village is unable to allow him to obtain full-time
status.

It has therefore been requested by the village that this legislation
be enacted upon by the State in order to afford him the opportunity
to be exempt from the age requirements of Civil service Law Section
58, to allow him to take the Civil Service Exam and enter the pool of
qualified applicants for the open positions.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S3136A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 3136--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 9, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LIBOUS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
 and recommitted to said committee
 AN  ACT  to authorize a certain individual to take the competitive civil
 service examination and be placed on the eligible list for appointment
 as a full-time police officer for the village  of  Oxford,  county  of
 Chenango
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 58 of  the  civil
 service  law,  or  any other law to the contrary, Ronald Martin, who has
 been continuously employed by the villages of Greene and Oxford, in  the
 county  of Chenango, as a part-time patrolman, shall be eligible to take
 the competitive civil service examination for  the  position  of  police
 officer  and  shall,  contingent  upon his score on such examination, be
 eligible to be placed on the eligible list for appointment  as  a  full
 time patrolman for the village of Oxford.
 

S 2. Ronald Martin shall otherwise be subject to the merit and fitness
 provisions of the civil service law applicable to full-time police offi
 cers.
 

S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08874-02-1

S3136A-2011: Authorizes Ronald Martin to take the competitive exam for police officer and be placed on the eligible list for a certain position