2023 New York Laws › EXC - Executive › Article 35 - Division of Criminal Justice Services › 835 - Definitions.

§ 835. Definitions.  1.  "Division"  means  the  division  of criminal
  justice services.
3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the division  of  criminal
  justice services.
4. "Council" means the municipal police training council.
5.  "Federal  acts"  means  the federal omnibus crime control and safe
  streets act  of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-eight,  the  federal  juvenile
  delinquency  prevention and control act of nineteen hundred sixty-eight,
  and any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto.
6. "Municipality" means  any  county,  city,  town,  park  commission,
  village, or police district in the state.
7.  "Police  officer"  means  a  member  of  a  police  force or other
  organization of a municipality who is responsible for the prevention and
  detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal  laws  of
  the  state,  but  shall not include any person serving as such solely by
  virtue of his occupying any other office or  position,  nor  shall  such
  term include a sheriff, under-sheriff, commissioner of police, deputy or
  assistant  commissioner  of police, chief of police, deputy or assistant
  chief of police  or  any  person  having  an  equivalent  title  who  is
  appointed   or   employed  by  a  municipality  to  exercise  equivalent
  supervisory authority.
7-a. "Police officer," for the purpose of the central state  registry,
  means  a person designated as such in subdivision thirty-four of section
  1.20 of the criminal procedure law.
7-b. "Peace officer" means a person designated as such in section 2.10
  of the criminal procedure law.
8. "Police agency" means any agency or department of any municipality,
  commission,  authority  or  other  public  benefit  corporation   having
  responsibility for enforcing the criminal laws of the state.
9.  "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the
  administrative board of the judicial conference, probation  departments,
  sheriffs'  offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of
  corrections and community supervision, the department of  correction  of
  any  municipality,  the financial frauds and consumer protection unit of
  the state department of financial services, the office  of  professional
  medical  conduct  of  the state department of health for the purposes of
  section  two  hundred  thirty  of  the  public  health  law,  the  child
  protective  services  unit  of  a  local  social  services district when
  conducting an investigation pursuant to subdivision six of section  four
  hundred  twenty-four  of the social services law, the office of Medicaid
  inspector general, the  temporary  state  commission  of  investigation,
  police  forces  and departments having responsibility for enforcement of
  the general criminal laws of the state, the Onondaga County  Center  for
  Forensic  Sciences  Laboratory  when  acting within the scope of its law
  enforcement duties and the division of forensic services of  the  Nassau
  county medical examiner's office when acting within the scope of its law
  enforcement duties.
10.  "Criminal  justice  function" means the prevention, detection and
  investigation of the commission of an offense,  the  apprehension  of  a
  person  for the alleged commission of an offense, the detention, release
  on recognizance or bail of a person charged with  an  offense  prior  to
  disposition  of  the  charge,  the  prosecution  and defense of a person
  charged with an offense, the detention, release on recognizance or  bail
  of  a person convicted of an offense prior to sentencing, the sentencing
  of offenders, probation, incarceration, parole, proceedings in  a  court
  subsequent  to a judgment of conviction relating thereto and the release
  of offenders from incarceration.
11. "Mass shooting" means an incident in which at  least  four  people
  are murdered with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.