File #: Int 2416-2021    Version: * Name: Prohibiting triple tours of duty for department of correction custodial officers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Criminal Justice
On agenda: 10/7/2021
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting triple tours of duty for department of correction custodial officers
Sponsors: Robert F. Holden, Paul A. Vallone, Kalman Yeger , Adrienne E. Adams, I. Daneek Miller, Justin L. Brannan, Diana I. Ayala, Deborah L. Rose, Darma V. Diaz, Peter A. Koo, Karen Koslowitz, Mark Gjonaj , Laurie A. Cumbo, Stephen T. Levin, Fernando Cabrera , Keith Powers , Alan N. Maisel, Kevin C. Riley, Inez D. Barron, Helen K. Rosenthal, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Oswald Feliz, Eric A. Ulrich, Joseph C. Borelli
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Summary: This bill would limit the assignment of tours of duty for Department of Correction (“DOC”) custodial officers to not more than two consecutive tours of duty. The bill would establish a tour of duty as consisting of not more than 8 consecutive hours. Assignment of additional hours into a third consecutive tour of duty would be prohibited.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 2416, 2. Int. No. 2416, 3. October 7, 2021 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-7-21, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 7, 2021

Int. No. 2416

 

By Council Members Holden, Vallone, Yeger, Adams, Miller, Brannan, Ayala, Rose, D. Diaz, Koo, Koslowitz, Gjonaj, Cumbo, Levin, Cabrera, Powers, Maisel, Riley, Barron, Rosenthal, Salamanca, Feliz, Ulrich and Borelli

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting triple tours of duty for department of correction custodial officers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 9-116 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows:

e. Custodial officers shall be assigned to not more than two consecutive tours of duty. A tour of duty shall consist of not more than 8 consecutive hours. Assignment of additional hours into a third consecutive tour of duty is prohibited.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

MHL

LS #17266

10/05/21