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a. The commissioner shall, in cooperation with the board of education, local school boards and private schools, institute a program to train persons designated by the appropriate school authority to administer the voluntary fingerprinting of New York city public and private school students in grades kindergarten through twelve and such persons to be trained shall not be police or police auxiliary personnel.
b. The program shall provide resources so that every school may offer the parents or legal guardians of a child the opportunity to have the child fingerprinted at school.
c. No child may be fingerprinted without first presenting an authorization form signed by a parent or legal guardian. Notwithstanding parental consent, any child over the age of fourteen shall also sign an authorization form, or may refuse to participate in the program.
d. Any fingerprints or other information supplied under the program shall be placed in the sole custody of the child's parents or legal guardians on the same day as supplied and no copy or record of such fingerprints shall be retained by the commissioner or the school. Upon the child attaining the age of eighteen years, said child shall be entitled to the return of his/her fingerprints from the parents or legal guardians.
a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner may employ persons who shall not be police officers to engage in the performance of duties involving the enforcement of laws and regulations relating to (1) the parking of vehicles and (2) the regulating, directing, controlling and restricting of the movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic, both such duties in furtherance of the facilitation of traffic, the convenience of the public and the proper protection of human life and health.
b. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to entitle such employees to the privileges and benefits of police officers, or to become members of the police pension fund.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/058 and L.L. 2006/022.
a. It shall be the duty of the department, and of its officers and members of the force, as the commissioner shall direct, to promptly advise the department of health and mental hygiene of all threatened danger to human life and health, and of all matters thought to demand its attention, and to regularly report to the department of health and mental hygiene all violations of its rules and ordinances, and of the health laws, and all useful sanitary information.
b. It shall be the duty of the department, by and through its proper officers, members and agents, to faithfully and at the proper time enforce and execute the sanitary rules and regulations, and the orders of the department of health and mental hygiene, made pursuant to the power of the department of health and mental hygiene, upon the same being received in writing and duly authenticated.
c. In and about the execution of any order of the department of health and mental hygiene, or of the department made pursuant thereto, members of the force shall have power and authority as when obeying any order of or law applicable to the department; but for their conduct they shall be responsible to the department and not to the department of health and mental hygiene. The department of health and mental hygiene may, with the consent of the department, impose any portion of the duties of subordinates in such department upon subordinates in the department.
d. The department is authorized to employ and use the appropriate persons and means, and to make the necessary expenditures for the execution and enforcement of the rules, orders and regulations of the department of health and mental hygiene, and such expenditures, so far as the same may not be refunded or compensated by the means herein elsewhere provided, shall be paid as the other expenses of the department of health and mental hygiene are paid.
a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “violent or traumatic incident” means any incident or series of incidents that can cause severe emotional and mental distress to members of the public, including but not limited to, a violent act or series of violent acts that cause death or any other incident or incidents that may be shocking, traumatic, or dangerous to the community.
b. Within 48 hours of a determination that a violent or traumatic incident has occurred, the department shall notify the mayor’s office of community mental health, and any additional mayoral office or agency designated by the mayor, of such violent or traumatic incident, as required by section 3-195. The notice required pursuant to this subdivision does not require the disclosure of confidential information or information that could jeopardize the investigation of such violent or traumatic incident by law enforcement, or otherwise endanger public safety.
(L.L. 2025/018, 2/22/2025, eff. 2/22/2026)
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