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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 24, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RABBITT, FINCH -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  security
         hospital treatment assistants peace officer status
         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  the  office of mental health while] WHEN ACTING IN THE
    6  PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE TRANSPORT-
    7  ING OF PERSONS CHARGED WITH A CRIME  AND  THE  transporting  OF  persons
    8  convicted  of a crime to court, to other facilities within the jurisdic-
    9  tion of the office of mental health, or to any state  or  local  correc-
   10  tional  facility;  provided,  however,  that nothing in this subdivision
   11  shall be deemed to authorize such employee to carry, possess, repair  or
   12  dispose  of  a  firearm unless the appropriate license therefor has been
   13  issued pursuant to section 400.00 of THE penal law.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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