N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 209-F
Outside service by local police forces

  • mobilization by governor
  • powers of sheriffs

1.

Whenever the public interest requires it, the governor may, in his discretion, authorize and direct the superintendent of state police, the sheriff of a county, the commissioner of the Nassau county police department and the head of the police department or force of any county, city, town or village of the state, to detail, assign, and make available for duty and use in any county, town, city or village of the state requesting their aid, assistance and use, under the direction and command of such officer as the governor may designate, all or any part of the deputies, forces, equipment and supplies under the command and control of such superintendent, sheriff, commissioner or head, as the case may be. While engaged in duty and rendering service in such county, town, city or village, the deputies, officers and members of such police forces shall have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the civil or political subdivision in or by which they are normally employed.

2.

a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, the sheriff of any county may, when the public interest requires it, declare a state of special emergency in any part or parts of his county where the public peace is threatened or where life or property may be endangered, after first advising the governor, by telegram, facsimile or other electronic means that he is about to do so.

b.

During the continuance of any such emergency so declared and until it has been terminated by the sheriff who declared it or by the governor, the sheriff who declared such emergency:

(1)

May, after having received a request for aid from the chief executive officer of a city, town or village located within his county, request the chief executive officer of any other city, town or village located within his county, and the administrative head of any parkway police force and any state park police force which operates within his county, and the head of a county police department in his county, to detail, assign and make available for duty and use in the city, town or village requesting the aid, a part of the forces, equipment and supplies of the police department or police force of the municipality, parkway and state park police force, and county police department whose aid is requested, and the chief executive officer of such city, town or village, and the administrative head of such parkway and state park police force, and the head of a county police department, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant any request so made, and

(2)

shall have the power to request any or any number of sheriffs in the state to aid him by detailing, assigning and making available to him, for duty and use in his county, such number of their deputy sheriffs as may be available, together with equipment and supplies, and to deputize as emergency special deputy sheriffs of his county any or all personnel so supplied by the sheriff of any other county, and the sheriff of any county to whom such a request is made is hereby authorized and empowered to grant any request so made.

c.

All or any part of the personnel, equipment and supplies furnished by the sheriff of another county in response to a request therefor, as aforesaid, may be detailed, assigned and made available for duty and use, by the requesting sheriff, (1) in a city, town or village which had requested aid, as aforesaid, provided there is need therefor to supplement the aid already provided by another municipality or by a parkway and/or state park police force, or a county police department, or any combination thereof, or if there is need therefor because no such aid was provided, or pending the arrival of such other aid, and

(2)

in any part of the county of the requesting sheriff which is outside a city or incorporated village and which, in the opinion of the requesting sheriff, is in need thereof to maintain the public peace or to prevent life or property becoming endangered.

d.

While engaged in duty and rendering service in any city, town, village or elsewhere, as aforesaid, the officers and members of any such police department or police force, and any responding sheriff and his deputies, so assigned and made available for duty and use shall have the same powers, duties, rights, benefits, privileges and immunities as if they were performing their duties in the civil or political subdivision in or by which they are normally employed, and all thereof, for the purpose of the workmen’s compensation law, shall be deemed to be engaged in the course of their employment from the time they report for such duty until they return to the civil or political subdivision in or by which they are normally employed.

e.

The chief executive officer of a municipality who requested aid, as aforesaid, with the consent of the chief of police of his police department or police force if any such there be, may deactivate any or all of the manpower furnished, upon his request for aid, by another municipality, parkway and/or state park police force, and/or a county police department. Manpower so furnished as aid to a municipality not having a police department or force may be deactivated by the chief executive officer thereof with the consent of the sheriff of the county in which it is located.

f.

A municipality may, by local law, delegate to the chief of police of its police department or police force the power hereby granted to its chief executive officer to request aid.

g.

If the chief executive officer of any such city, town or village is absent or disabled, the chief of police thereof may make such request for aid, grant a request therefor, and deactivate manpower furnished in response to request therefor. If any such municipality does not have a chief of police a person empowered by the local legislative body may so act, except with respect to deactivating manpower furnished upon request.

h.

As used in this section: (a) The term “chief executive officer” shall mean:

(1)

In the case of a city the mayor, except in a city having a city manager where it shall mean such city manager, and

(2)

in the case of a town the supervisor or presiding supervisor, and

(3)

in the case of a village the mayor, except in a village having a president or manager where it shall mean such president or manager; (b) The term “municipality” shall mean a city, town or village. (i) All powers vested in the sheriff by this section shall only be exercised in the county of Nassau by the county executive of Nassau county.

Source: Section 209-F — Outside service by local police forces; mobilization by governor; powers of sheriffs, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/209-F (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

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Defining qualifications of exempt volunteer firefighters 200‑A
Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company or fire department 200‑AA
Training stipend for volunteer firefighters 200‑B
Leaves of absence for volunteer firefighters entering the armed forces of the United States prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty-six 200‑C
Leaves of absence for volunteer firefighters entering the armed forces of the United States on or after July first, nineteen hundred sixt... 201
Rights and privileges of exempt volunteer firefighters 202
Certificate to be issued to exempt volunteer firefighter 202‑A
Recording certificates of exempt volunteer firefighter 203
List of exempt volunteer firefighters to be filed 204
Qualifications necessary to entitle to certain exemptions 204‑A
Raising of funds for fire company purposes 204‑B
Youth programs 204‑C
Plan for arson investigation 204‑D
Duties of the fire chief 204‑DD
Qualifications of a fire chief 204‑E
Unauthorized destruction of property 204‑F
Plan for hazardous materials incidents response 204‑G
Restrictions on the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals 205
Payments to injured or representatives of deceased volunteer firefighters 205‑A
Additional right of action to certain injured or representatives of certain deceased firefighters 205‑B
Relief of volunteer firefighters engaged in the performance of duty as such firefighters from civil liability and liability of fire distr... 205‑C
Payments pending controversies where volunteer firefighters are killed or injured 205‑CC
Volunteer firefighter enhanced cancer disability benefits 205‑D
Relief from civil liability for acts or omissions by fire wardens in the city of New York 205‑E
Right of action to certain injured or representatives of certain deceased police officers 205‑F
Removal of civil liability barriers 205‑G
Defense and indemnification of volunteer firefighters 206
Certificate to police officers and firefighters 206‑A
Penalty for improper use of certificates 206‑B
Exemption of benefits payable under blanket accident insurance covering volunteer firefighters 207
Hospitalization of members of fire departments in certain cities 207‑A
Payment of salary, medical and hospital expenses of firefighters with injuries or illness incurred in performance of duties 207‑B
Additional retirement benefits for certain firefighters in cities 207‑C
Payment of salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of police officers with injuries or illness incurred in the performance of duties 207‑D
Additional retirement benefits for certain police officers in cities and certain villages 207‑E
Minimum retirement benefits for police officers in cities and who are members of police pension or retirement systems maintained by such ... 207‑E*2
Minimum retirement benefits for firefighters in cities and who are members of fire department pension or retirement systems maintained by... 207‑F
Ordinary death benefits of members of fire department systems of cities 207‑G
Ordinary death benefits of members of police retirement systems 207‑H
Death benefits of members of certain fire department pension or retirement systems of cities 207‑H*2
Death benefits of members of certain police pension systems 207‑I
Temporary supplemental retirement allowances for certain police officers 207‑I*2
Supplemental retirement allowances of retired firefighters of cities 207‑II
Payment of supplemental retirement allowances of retired police officers and firefighters of certain cities 207‑J
Supplemental pension allowances of certain retired teachers of cities 207‑K
Disabilities of policemen and firemen in certain cities 207‑K*2
Disabilities of policemen and firemen in certain cities 207‑KK
Disabilities of firefighters in certain cities caused by cancer 207‑KKK
Disabilities of firefighters in certain cities caused by Parkinson’s Disease 207‑L
Temporary supplemental retirement allowances for certain police officers in towns and villages 207‑N
Performance of duty disability retirement 207‑O
Performance of duty disability retirement 207‑O*2
Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of correction departments in certain cities 207‑P
Performance of duty disability retirement 207‑Q
Firefighters 207‑Q*2
Disabilities of emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in certain cities 208
Members of police force to have one day rest in seven 208‑A
School guards 208‑B
Death benefits for beneficiaries of certain police officers and firefighters 208‑C
Death benefits for dependent fathers or dependent mothers of certain police officers and firefighters 208‑D
Extra work by members of certain police forces 208‑D*2
Compensation during disability 208‑D*3
Extra work by members of a police force in cities 208‑E
Extra work by members of certain police forces 208‑F
Special accidental death benefit 208‑G
Community activity by members of a police force 208‑H
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and retraining for police departments in cities having a population of one million or more 1 209
Outside service by local fire departments, companies, ambulance districts and airport crash-fire-rescue units 209‑A
Relations with other states and the dominion of Canada 209‑AA
Paid leave for disaster service volunteers 209‑AA*2
Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges 209‑B
Emergency rescue and first aid squads 209‑BB
Specialized teams 209‑C
Fire police squads of fire departments and fire companies 209‑CC
Notification of presence of wild animals and dangerous dogs 209‑D
Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments and companies 209‑DD
Discovery of unlawful drug laboratory 209‑E
Fire mobilization and mutual aid plan 209‑EE
Adoption of a code of ethics and disclosure of interests by fire companies 209‑F
Outside service by local police forces 209‑FF
Provisions relating to certain accidental disability benefits 209‑FFF
Provisions relating to a membership date in the New York city police pension fund attributable to service in the titles of police cadet p... 209‑G
Liability for outside aid 209‑I
Emergency service by volunteer firefighters 209‑J
Mutual aid programs in counties 209‑L
Removal of volunteer officers and volunteer members of fire departments 209‑M
Outside service by local police 209‑P
Relay of fire and emergency calls 209‑Q
Permanent appointment of police officers 209‑R
Police protection 209‑S
Contracts between municipalities and fire districts for joint fire training centers 209‑T
Contracts for joint fire alarm systems 209‑U
Notification of presence of hazardous materials 209‑V
Employment of retired persons as special patrolmen for publicly owned property 209‑W
Permanent appointment of fire fighters 209‑X
Training of certain paid city firefighters promoted to a first-line supervisory position 209‑Y
Establishment of hazardous materials emergency response teams 209‑Z
Annual independent audits
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 209-F’s source at nysenate​.gov

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