[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Malverne as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire Department — See Ch. 74.
[Adopted 12-17-1958[1] (Ch. 30, Art. I, of the 1972 Code)]
In accordance with General Municipal Law § 10, the
Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Malverne shall have power to
appoint such number of special police officers for the Village as
she or he may deem necessary to preserve the public peace in case
of riot, conflagration, dangerous traffic congestion or other public
emergency. Such special police officers shall be empowered to act
only when called to duty by the Mayor or the Chief of Police of said
Village for service during a riot, conflagration, dangerous traffic
congestion or other public emergency. Such special police officers
shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor, and the appointment of any
special police officers may be rescinded by the Mayor at any time,
with or without cause. The amount of compensation, if any, to be paid
to a special police officer shall be fixed by the Board of Trustees.
Such special police officers shall, in the performance of their duties,
be under the sole control of the regularly appointed and constituted
officers of the Malverne Police Department. They shall have the power
to make arrests only for public intoxication, traffic violations,
disorderly conduct or other offenses against peace and good order.
[Adopted 12-6-1967 (Ch. 30, Art. II, of the 1972 Code)]
The Incorporated Village of Malverne does hereby elect to make
available to the members of the Police Department of said Village
all the advantages and benefits provided by § 384-d of the
Retirement and Social Security Law of the State of New York, and every
member contributing on the basis of this section shall be separated
from the service on the last day of the calendar month next succeeding
the calendar month in which he attains age 62.
The Incorporated Village of Malverne does hereby elect to assume
all the additional costs on account of services for an officer or
member of the Malverne Police Department rendered to said Village
of Malverne prior to the effective date of such election.
The Incorporated Village of Malverne does hereby elect to assume
all of the back costs on account of services of an officer or member
of said Department which will be required in order to effectuate the
retirement of those members who file an election pursuant to this
section at the end of a twenty-year period as against any contributions
already made under the twenty-five-year retirement plan, and including
the cost of the necessary actuarial reevaluation on account of services
rendered prior to the effective date of this chapter.
