File #: Int 1190-2023    Version: * Name: A one-time exception to the maximum age requirement for membership in the fire department for certain persons during the next promotional exam period.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 9/28/2023
Enactment date: 10/18/2023 Law number: 2023/139
Title: A Local Law in relation to a one-time exception to the maximum age requirement for membership in the fire department for certain persons during the next promotional exam period
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Joann Ariola , Robert F. Holden, Kalman Yeger , Lynn C. Schulman, Amanda Farías, James F. Gennaro, Carlina Rivera , Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, David M. Carr, Ari Kagan
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Summary: Under existing local law, in order to become a firefighter for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) an individual may not have passed their twenty-ninth birthday on the date of the filing of their application for civil service examination. This legislation would create a one-time waiver from this requirement for certain employees of the FDNY Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (FDNY EMS). Such waiver would apply to the next promotion examination for EMS workers to become firefighters.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1190, 2. Int. No. 1190, 3. Committee Report 9/19/23, 4. Hearing Testimony 9/19/23, 5. Hearing Transcript 9/19/23, 6. Committee Report 9/28/23, 7. Hearing Transcript 9/28/23, 8. September 28, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-28-23, 10. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 28, 2023, 11. Int. No. 1190 (FINAL), 12. Fiscal Impact Statement, 13. Mayor's Letter, 14. Local Law 139
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
10/24/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/18/2023*Gale A. Brewer Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/18/2023*Gale A. Brewer Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/28/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Fire and Emergency Management P-C Item Approved by CommPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/19/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/19/2023*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Fire and Emergency Management P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available

Preconsidered Int. No. 1190

 

By Council Members Brewer, Ariola, Holden, Yeger, Schulman, Farías, Gennaro, Rivera, Brooks-Powers, Carr and Kagan

 

A Local Law in relation to a one-time exception to the maximum age requirement for membership in the fire department for certain persons during the next promotional exam period

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of section 15-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York, no person shall be restricted from taking the first promotion examination for firefighter that is given after the effective date of this local law on the basis of exceeding the otherwise applicable maximum age requirement to qualify for the force of the fire department of the city of New York, if such person: (i) had not passed their twenty-ninth birthday on or before December 31, 2019; and (ii) would have otherwise been eligible during the 2020 calendar year to file an application for a promotion examination as a member of the emergency medical services bureau of the fire department of the city of New York. No person who qualifies under this local law shall be disqualified from membership in the department on the basis of exceeding such maximum age requirement because of having passed their twenty-ninth birthday subsequent to the filing of their application.                     

§ 2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

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