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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPolice Mutual Aid Authorization- Local Law.pdfProposed Local Law __ 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 entry in the Minutes of the Village Board of Trustees.