N.Y. Executive Law § 835: Definitions

§ 835. Definitions. 1. "Division" means the division of criminal

justice services.

3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the division of criminal

justice services.

4. "Council" means the municipal police training council.

5. "Federal acts" means the federal omnibus crime control and safe

streets act of nineteen hundred sixty-eight, the federal juvenile

delinquency prevention and control act of nineteen hundred sixty-eight,

and any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto.

6. "Municipality" means any county, city, town, park commission,

village, or police district in the state.

7. "Police officer" means a member of a police force or other

organization of a municipality who is responsible for the prevention and

detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal laws of

the state, but shall not include any person serving as such solely by

virtue of his occupying any other office or position, nor shall such

term include a sheriff, under-sheriff, commissioner of police, deputy or

assistant commissioner of police, chief of police, deputy or assistant

chief of police or any person having an equivalent title who is

appointed or employed by a municipality to exercise equivalent

supervisory authority.

7-a. "Police officer," for the purpose of the central state registry,

means a person designated as such in subdivision thirty-four of section

1.20 of the criminal procedure law.

7-b. "Peace officer" means a person designated as such in section 2.10

of the criminal procedure law.

8. "Police agency" means any agency or department of any municipality,

commission, authority or other public benefit corporation having

responsibility for enforcing the criminal laws of the state.

9. "Qualified agencies" means courts in the unified court system, the

administrative board of the judicial conference, probation departments,

sheriffs' offices, district attorneys' offices, the state department of

corrections and community supervision, the department of correction of

any municipality, the financial frauds and consumer protection unit of

the state department of financial services, the office of professional

medical conduct of the state department of health for the purposes of

section two hundred thirty of the public health law, the child

protective services unit of a local social services district when

conducting an investigation pursuant to subdivision six of section four

hundred twenty-four of the social services law, the office of Medicaid

inspector general, the temporary state commission of investigation,

police forces and departments having responsibility for enforcement of

the general criminal laws of the state, the Onondaga County Center for

Forensic Sciences Laboratory when acting within the scope of its law

enforcement duties and the division of forensic services of the Nassau

county medical examiner's office when acting within the scope of its law

enforcement duties.

10. "Criminal justice function" means the prevention, detection and

investigation of the commission of an offense, the apprehension of a

person for the alleged commission of an offense, the detention, release

on recognizance or bail of a person charged with an offense prior to

disposition of the charge, the prosecution and defense of a person

charged with an offense, the detention, release on recognizance or bail

of a person convicted of an offense prior to sentencing, the sentencing

of offenders, probation, incarceration, parole, proceedings in a court

subsequent to a judgment of conviction relating thereto and the release

of offenders from incarceration.

11. "Mass shooting" means an incident in which at least four people

are murdered with a firearm, rifle, or shotgun.