§ 173.41. Contracts to render police service to other municipalities.

1.

Any contract between the county and another municipal corporation for joint police service pursuant to Article 5-G of the General Municipal Law may provide that the county, through the Department of Public Safety, will furnish a specified degree and type of police service to such municipality at a cost to be set forth in such contract, which contract shall be for a term of not more than five years, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 194.171 of the Laws of Westchester County. It shall be competent in such contract to provide for the number of police officers to be assigned to duty in such municipal corporation. Such contract shall not limit the power of the Commissioner/Sheriff of Public Safety in removing, demoting or otherwise disciplining any member of the Department of Public Safety. During the life of such contract, members of the Department of Public Safety so assigned shall have the same powers and duties within the contracting municipality as is given to them by state law, the County Charter and Administrative Code or any other law. The county, through its Commissioner/Sheriff of Public Safety, may request and contract for police services from any municipality if such services may be available.

2.

The Department of Public Safety will continue to render to any municipality, subject to available budgetary appropriations, those various special services formerly rendered by the elected Sheriff and/or Parkway Police. The department through its Commissioner/Sheriff of Public Safety may request and receive police services from any municipality, such service to be rendered on a voluntary basis. This does not limit however the former law enforcement powers of the Sheriff throughout the county which are hereby vested in the Commissioner/Sheriff.

(L.L. No. 2-1979, § 2; amended by L.L. No. 13-1983; L.L. No. 1-2013)