N.Y. Village Law § 8-804 Discipline and Charges

• Library: New York Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 NY Law Chapter 777
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.Y. Village Law § 8-804

1. Except as otherwise provided by law, a member of such police force or department shall continue in office unless suspended or dismissed. The board of trustees or municipal board shall have power and is authorized to adopt and make rules and regulations for the examination, hearing, investigation and determination of charges, made or preferred against any member or members of such police force or department. Except as otherwise provided, no member or members of such police force or department shall be fined, reprimanded, suspended, removed or dismissed until written charges shall have been examined, heard and investigated in such manner or procedure, practice, examination and investigation as the board may by rules and regulations from time to time prescribe. Any member of such police force or department at the time of the hearing or trial of such charges shall have the right to a public hearing and trial and to be represented by counsel at any such hearing or trial, and any person who shall have preferred such charges or any part of the same shall not sit as judge upon such hearing or trial. Any and all witnesses produced in such support of all or any part of such charges shall testify thereto under oath. Any member of such force or department who shall have been so dismissed shall not be reinstated as a member of such force or department unless he shall within twelve months of his dismissal file with such board a written application for a rehearing of the charges upon which he was dismissed. Such board shall have the power to rehear such charges and, in its discretion, reinstate a member of the force or department after he has filed such written application therefor. Any member of such force or department found guilty upon charges, after five days' notice and an opportunity to be heard in his defense, of neglect o...