N.Y. County Law § 652-a: Appointment and promotion of deputy sheriffs

§ 652-a. Appointment and promotion of deputy sheriffs. 1. In any

county outside the city of New York where heretofore there has been

established a procedure for the appointment and promotion of personnel

within the office of the sheriff, the appointment and promotion of

personnel within the office of the sheriff may continue to be made

pursuant to that procedure through March thirty-first, nineteen hundred

ninety-three, any other provision of law notwithstanding.

2. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to alter or restrict

the authority of a county to change the method of appointment or

promotion of deputy sheriffs by a duly adopted local law, nor shall

anything contained herein be construed to alter any existing collective

bargaining agreement between a county and an employee organization

representing deputy sheriffs, nor to alter or restrict the power of any

county or employee organization to contract with respect to an alternate

method of appointment or promotion of deputy sheriffs.