2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 35 - Division of Criminal Justice Services › 839 - Municipal Police Training Council.

§ 839. Municipal  police  training council. 1. There is hereby created
within the division a municipal police training council composed of  ten
members, who shall be selected as follows:
(a)  one  shall  be appointed by the governor who shall be a full-time
faculty member of a college or university who teaches  in  the  area  of
criminal justice or police science;
(b) one shall be appointed by the governor from a list of at least six
nominees  submitted  by  the  New  York state sheriffs' association, who
shall be incumbent sheriffs in the state having at least  two  years  of
service on the law enforcement training committee of such association or
having  other  specialized experience in connection with police training
which, in the opinion of the chairman of such law  enforcement  training
committee,  provides  the sheriff with at least an equivalent background
in the field of police training; and
(c) one shall be appointed by the governor from a list of at least six
nominees submitted by the  New  York  state  association  of  chiefs  of
police,  who  shall  be  incumbent  chiefs of police or commissioners of
police of a municipality in the state  having  at  least  two  years  of
service  on  the police training committee of such association or having
other specialized experience in connection with police  training  which,
in  the opinion of the chairman of such training committee, provides the
chief of police or commissioner of police with at  least  an  equivalent
background in the field of police training; and
(d) one shall be the commissioner of police of the city of New York or
a member of his department, designated by such commissioner and approved
by the governor; and
(e) one shall be the superintendent of the state police; and
(f)  one  shall be appointed by the governor who shall be an incumbent
chief of police or commissioner of police from  a  municipality  in  the
state  with  a  police  department  consisting  of more than one hundred
officers; and
(g) one shall be appointed by the governor who shall be  an  incumbent
sheriff  in  the  state from an agency with more than one hundred deputy
sheriffs; and
(h)  one  shall  be  appointed  by  the  governor  who  shall   be   a
representative of victims of crime; and
(i)   one   shall  be  appointed  by  the  governor  who  shall  be  a
representative  from  a  community  with  high  numbers  of  police  and
community interactions; and
(j)  one  shall be appointed by the governor who shall be an incumbent
executive from a peace officer employing agency or municipality.
2. The governor shall designate from among the members of the  council
a chairman who shall serve during the pleasure of the governor.
3.  All  members  of  the  council  appointed by the governor shall be
appointed for terms of two years, such terms to commence on April first,
and expire on March thirty-first. Any member chosen to  fill  a  vacancy
created  otherwise than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the
unexpired term of the member whom he is to succeed. Vacancies caused  by
expiration  of a term or otherwise shall be filled in the same manner as
original appointments. Any member  may  be  reappointed  for  additional
terms.
4.  Any  member of the council appointed pursuant to paragraphs (b) or
(c) of subdivision one of this section as an incumbent sheriff, chief of
police or commissioner of police, as the case may be, shall  immediately
upon  the termination of his holding of said office or employment, cease
to be a member of the council.
5. The council shall meet at least four times in  each  year.  Special
meetings may be called by the chairman and shall be called by him at the

request  of  the  governor or upon the written request of six members of
the council. The council may establish its own requirements as to quorum
and its own procedures with respect to the conduct of its  meetings  and
other  affairs;  provided, however, that all recommendations made by the
council to the governor pursuant to subdivision  one  of  section  eight
hundred  forty of this chapter shall require the affirmative vote of six
members of the council.
6. Membership on the council shall not constitute the  holding  of  an
office,  and  members  of  the council shall not be required to take and
file oaths of office before serving on the council.  The  council  shall
not have the right to exercise any portion of the sovereign power of the
state.
7.  The members of the council shall receive no compensation for their
services but shall  be  allowed  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses
incurred in the performance of their functions hereunder.
8.  No  member  of  the council shall be disqualified from holding any
public office or employment, nor shall he forfeit  any  such  office  or
employment,  by reason of his appointment hereunder, notwithstanding the
provisions of any general, special  or  local  law,  ordinance  or  city
charter.