File #: Int 0463-2006    Version: * Name: Allowing applicants who have completed six years of honorable part-time service in the US military reserves to qualify for appointment to the NYPD.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Civil Service and Labor
On agenda: 10/25/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing applicants who have completed six years of honorable part-time service in the United States military reserves to qualify for appointment to the New York City Police Department.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Inez E. Dickens, Lewis A. Fidler, Letitia James, Annabel Palma, Kendall Stewart, Michael C. Nelson
Council Member Sponsors: 7

Int. No. 463

 

By Council Members Brewer, Dickens, Fidler, James, Palma, Stewart and Nelson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing applicants who have completed six years of honorable part-time service in the United States military reserves to qualify for appointment to the New York City Police Department.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Section 14-109 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision c to read as follows:

                     c.  In addition to any other relevant employment qualifications established pursuant to any law, rule, or regulation, any person who possess a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and who has completed at least six years of honorable part-time service in the United States military reserves by date of appointment to membership in the police force shall be eligible for such appointment.

                     §2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or other portion of this local law is for any reason declared unconstitutional or invalid, in whole or in part, by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed severable, and such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this local law, which remaining portions shall continue in full force and effect.

                     §3.  This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

LS # 1580

H.G.

10-17-06