File #: Int 0517-2004    Version: * Name: Extending annual leave to city employees who return from combat military service.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Civil Service and Labor
On agenda: 12/15/2004
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to extending annual leave to city employees who return from combat military service.
Sponsors: Vincent J. Gentile, Robert Jackson, Gale A. Brewer, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, James F. Gennaro, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, Allan W. Jennings, Jr., G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Miguel Martinez, Michael E. McMahon, Hiram Monserrate, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Philip Reed, Albert Vann, David I. Weprin, Erik Martin Dilan, Eva S. Moskowitz, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Margarita Lopez, Andrew J. Lanza, James S. Oddo
Council Member Sponsors: 27
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2005*Vincent J. Gentile City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/20/2005*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Civil Service and Labor Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/20/2005*Vincent J. Gentile Committee on Civil Service and Labor Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/15/2004*Vincent J. Gentile City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/15/2004*Vincent J. Gentile City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 517

 

By Council Members Gentile, Jackson, Brewer, Comrie, Fidler, Gennaro, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Jennings, Koppell, Liu, Martinez, McMahon, Monserrate, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Reed, Vann, Weprin, Dilan, Moskowitz, Addabbo Jr., Lanza and Oddo

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to extending annual leave to city employees who return from combat military service.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 12 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 12-140 to read as follows:

§12-140  Additional annual leave for combat service.  a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section only:

1. “City employee” shall mean any person who is employed full-time by a department, agency or institution of government, and is paid out of the city treasury.

2.  “Combat service” shall mean the performance of duties by a member of the armed forces serving in a combat zone designated by the federal government, during an armed conflict fought in a foreign country.

3.  “Member of the armed forces” shall mean any person who serves on active duty in any branch of the United States armed forces or the national guard, or any reserve component. 

b.  Any city employee who takes a leave of absence or is called upon by draft or reservist duty to serve as a member of the armed forces and performs combat service, shall be granted five additional annual leave days upon his or her return to employment with the city of New York. 

                     §2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment.

 

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