N.Y. County Law § 662: Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges

§ 662. Appointment of private college campus security officers at

independent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision

of law to the contrary, the sheriff of any county, any part or all of

which falls outside the limits of a city having a population of one

million or more, may appoint as private college campus security officers

security guards employed by an independent non-profit college upon the

request of such independent non-profit college in accordance with the

provisions of subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of

the education law. The sheriff may appoint such campus security officers

pursuant to this section only if more than fifty percent of the total

acreage of real property owned by or under the control of such

independent non-profit college is located within such sheriff's county

of jurisdiction and outside the geographic boundaries of any city within

such county and the county legislature or board of supervisors, pursuant

to local law or resolution duly adopted, has authorized the sheriff to

make such appointments. Any such security guards appointed as campus

security officers shall be employees of the independent non-profit

college requesting such appointment and shall not be officers, agents,

servants or employees of the appointing sheriff or his county of

jurisdiction nor be considered public officers, agents, servants or

employees. Such campus security officers shall have only those powers

set forth in subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the

education law.

2. The sheriff may condition appointment as private college campus

security officers upon compliance by such campus security officers with

written procedures established by the sheriff in order to ensure a

coordinated and cooperative law enforcement effort and the payment of an

administrative fee not to exceed fifty dollars per year per campus

security officer and may revoke such appointments at any time for

material non-compliance with the requirements of such written procedures

or subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the education

law or for any other reason that shall disqualify a security guard from

being such a campus security officer pursuant to the provisions of such

subdivision.