The New York City Council - File #: Int 0090-2018

• File #: Int 0090-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Raising the maximum age to apply to become a firefighter.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Filed (End of Session)
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Final action: 12/31/2021
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to raising the maximum age to apply to become a firefighter
• Sponsors: Alan N. Maisel, Andy L. King, Alan N. Maisel, Fernando Cabrera , Fernando Cabrera , Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Ruben Diaz, Sr., Robert F. Holden, Ruben Diaz, Sr., Deborah L. Rose, Robert F. Holden, Deborah L. Rose, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Jumaane D. Williams, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Kalman Yeger , Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Eric A. Ulrich, Kalman Yeger , Eric A. Ulrich

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/31/2021	*	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
12/31/2021	*	City Council	Filed (End of Session)
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 90

By Council Members Maisel, Cabrera, Cornegy, R. Diaz, Holden, Rose, the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams), Rodriguez, Salamanca, Yeger and Ulrich

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to raising the maximum age to apply to become a firefighter

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision a of section 15-103 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 24 for the year 1968, is amended to read as follows:

3. Shall have passed his or her [eighteenth] 18th birthday but not his or her [twenty-ninth] 31st birthday on the date of the filing of his or her application for civil service examination and not his or her 36th birthday on the date of his or her commencing employment as a firefighter. [No person who qualifies under this requirement shall be disqualified from membership in the department because of having passed his or her twenty-ninth birthday subsequent to the filing of his or her application.] However no person shall be appointed unless he or she shall have attained his or her twenty-first birthday.

§2.   This local law takes effect immediately.

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LS 3018/Int. 1221-2016

LS 900

12/22/17