NY Vill L § 8-804 (2021)
2021 New York Laws VIL - Village Article 8 - Police Department 8-804 - Discipline and Charges.

§  8-804  Discipline  and  charges. 1. Except as otherwise provided by   law, a member of such police  force  or  department  shall  continue  in   office unless suspended or dismissed. The board of trustees or municipal   board  shall  have  power  and is authorized to adopt and make rules and   regulations   for   the   examination,   hearing,   investigation    and   determination  of  charges,  made  or  preferred  against  any member or   members  of  such  police  force  or  department.  Except  as  otherwise   provided,  no member or members of such police force or department shall   be fined, reprimanded, suspended, removed  or  dismissed  until  written   charges  shall have been examined, heard and investigated in such manner   or procedure, practice, examination and investigation as the  board  may   by rules and regulations from time to time prescribe. Any member of such   police  force  or department at the time of the hearing or trial of such   charges shall have the right to a public hearing and  trial  and  to  be   represented  by counsel at any such hearing or trial, and any person who   shall have preferred such charges or any part of the same shall not  sit   as  judge  upon such hearing or trial. Any and all witnesses produced in   such support of all or any part of such charges  shall  testify  thereto   under  oath.  Any member of such force or department who shall have been   so dismissed shall not be reinstated  as  a  member  of  such  force  or   department  unless  he  shall within twelve months of his dismissal file   with such board a written application for a  rehearing  of  the  charges   upon  which he was dismissed.  Such board shall have the power to rehear   such charges and, in its discretion, reinstate a member of the force  or   department  after  he  has  filed such written application therefor. Any   member of such force or department found guilty upon charges, after five   days' notice and an opportunity to be heard in his defense,  of  neglect   or  dereliction  in  the  performance  of official duty, or violation of   rules and regulations, or  disobedience,  or  incompetency,  to  perform   official  duty, or an act of delinquency seriously affecting his general   character or fitness for  office,  may  be  punished  by  the  board  of   trustees  or  other  municipal  board having jurisdiction, by reprimand,   forfeiture and the withholding of salary or compensation for a specified   time not exceeding twenty days, suspension from  duty  for  a  specified   time  not  exceeding  twenty  days  and  the  withholding  of  salary or   compensation  during  such  suspension,  or  by   dismissal   from   the   department.  Such board shall have the power to suspend, without pay for   a period not to exceed thirty days, pending the trial  of  charges,  any   member of such police force or department.  If any member of such police   force or department so suspended shall not be convicted by such board of   the charges so preferred, he shall be entitled to full pay from the date   of   suspension,   notwithstanding   such  charges  and  suspension.  2.   Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  no  charges  shall  be   commenced  more  than  three  years  after the occurrence of the alleged   neglect or dereliction in the performance of official duty, or violation   of rules and regulations, or disobedience, or incompetency,  to  perform   official  duty, or an act of delinquency seriously affecting his general   character or fitness for office, complained  of  and  described  in  the   charges  provided,  however,  that such limitation shall not apply where   the aforementioned conduct complained of and described  in  the  charges   would,  if  proven  in a court of appropriate jurisdiction, constitute a   crime.