HomeMy WebLinkAboutLocal Law D - Police Mutual Aid Authorization- Local Law.pdfProposed Local Law D of 2012 – Village of Cayuga Heights - ARTICLE 35
Authorization to Request and Provide Mutual Police Aid
SECTION I. PURPOSE AND INTENT.
It is the purpose and intent of this Local Law to add to the Laws of the Village of Cayuga
Heights provisions to facilitate the process by which the Village of Cayuga Heights may grant or
request police assistance to or from another municipality as authorized by the State of New York
General Municipal Law § 209-m.
SECTION II. AMENDMENT TO THE LAWS OF THE VILLAGE OF CAYUGA
HEIGHTS TO ADD ARTICLE 35 ENTITLED “MUTUAL POLICE
AID” READING AS FOLLOWS:
Article 035. Outside Police Service
Section 035-10. Authorization to Request Assistance
The Chief of Police of the Village of Cayuga Heights, whenever the Chief of
Police deems it to be in the public interest, may request the chief executive
officer, or chief of police if so designated by local law, of any other local
government to detail, assign or make available for duty and use in the Village of
Cayuga Heights any part of the forces, equipment and/or supplies of its police
department or police force. The Chief of Police will notify the Village of Cayuga
Heights Mayor or, in the Mayor’s absence, the Deputy Mayor, of said request for
assistance as expeditiously as possible.
Section 035-20. Authorization to Provide Assistance
The Chief of Police of the Village of Cayuga Heights is hereby authorized to
provide assistance of the regularly employed law enforcement officers, equipment
and/or supplies of the Village of Cayuga Heights Police Department to any
municipality requesting such assistance from the Village of Cayuga Heights, to
aid in coping with situations where there exists in such other municipality a need
for the service of additional law enforcement officers, equipment, and/or supplies
to protect the health, life and property of such other municipality, its inhabitants
and the visitors thereto. The Chief of Police will notify the Village of Cayuga
Heights Mayor or, in their absence, the Deputy Mayor, of said provision of
assistance as expeditiously as possible.
Section 035-30. Statutory Authority
The request for assistance by the Village of Cayuga Heights and the offer of
assistance by the Village of Cayuga Heights shall be in accordance with the
provisions of § 209-m of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York.
Any term not otherwise defined herein shall have the same meaning and effect as
set forth in said State Law.
SECTION III. SUPERCEDING EFFECT.
All ordinances, local laws, resolutions, rules, regulations and other enactments of the
Village of Cayuga Heights in conflict with the provisions of this Local Law are hereby
superseded to the extent necessary to give this Local Law full force and effect.
SECTION IV. VALIDITY.
The invalidity of any provision of this Local Law shall not affect the validity of any other
provision of this Local Law that can be given effect without such invalid provision.
SECTION V. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Local Law shall be effective immediately upon filing in the office of the Secretary
of State, except that it shall be effective from the date of its service as against a person served
with a copy thereof, certified by the Village Clerk, and showing the date of its passage and entr y
in the Minutes of the Village Board of Trustees.