File #: Int 1044-2013    Version: * Name: Requiring that the department of parks and recreation fingerprint all employees under their jurisdiction for the purposes of conducting background investigations.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 5/8/2013
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that the department of parks and recreation fingerprint all employees under their jurisdiction for the purposes of conducting background investigations.
Sponsors: James Vacca, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, Andy L. King, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Int. No. 1044
 
By Council Members Vacca, Mark-Viverito, Fidler, James, King, Koppell, Nelson and Ulrich  
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that the department of parks and recreation fingerprint all employees under their jurisdiction for the purposes of conducting background investigations.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-140 to read as follows:
§18-140 Background investigations for department employees. a. The commissioner shall require that any candidate for employment at the department or any candidate for employment at an entity contracted by the department be fingerprinted for the purpose of securing criminal history records from the state division of criminal justice services.
b. All persons required to be fingerprinted pursuant to this section shall pay the processing fee required by the state division of criminal justice services.
§2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment into law.
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