2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 7-A - (89-E - 89-W) SECURITY GUARD ACT
89-N - Training requirements.

 
    § 89-n. Training requirements. 1. Security guards shall be required to
  satisfactorily  complete  training  programs  given  and administered by
  security guard training schools, schools which  provide  security  guard
  training  programs or security guard companies prescribed, certified and
  approved  by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to  section   eight   hundred
  forty-one-c of the executive law to include:
    a. an eight hour pre-assignment training course;
    b. an on-the-job training course to be completed within ninety working
  days  following employment, consisting of a minimum of sixteen hours and
  a maximum of forty  hours,  as  determined  by  the  council,  generally
  relating to the security guard's specific duties, the nature of the work
  place and the requirements of the security guard company;
    c.  a  forty-seven  hour  firearms  training  course for issuance of a
  special armed guard registration card;
    d. an eight hour annual in-service training course; and
    e. an additional eight hour  annual  in-service  training  course  for
  holders of special armed guard registration cards.
    The training programs and courses required by this subdivision may, if
  approved  and  certified by the commissioner pursuant to subdivision two
  of section eight hundred forty-one-c of the executive law, be given  and
  administered by security guard companies.
    Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit a security guard company
  from  voluntarily  providing  training programs and courses which exceed
  the minimum requirements provided by this subdivision.
    Upon completion of a required training course, a security guard  shall
  receive   from   the  provider  a  certificate  evidencing  satisfactory
  completion thereof in accordance with the requirements prescribed by the
  commissioner pursuant  to  section  eight  hundred  forty-one-c  of  the
  executive law.
    2.  a.  A  security guard who has been or was previously employed as a
  peace  officer  for  eighteen  months  or  more  who  exhibits  a  valid
  certificate  awarded  pursuant to subdivision six of section 2.30 of the
  criminal procedure law attesting to his or her  satisfactory  completion
  of  the  training  requirements  imposed by section 2.30 of the criminal
  procedure law shall be exempt from the requirements of  paragraph  c  of
  subdivision  one  of  this  section provided that such peace officer has
  completed a course of firearms training approved by the municipal police
  training council provided, however, that  nothing  in  this  subdivision
  shall  be  deemed  to  authorize such guard to carry, possess, repair or
  dispose of a firearm unless the appropriate license  therefor  has  been
  issued pursuant to section 400.00 of the penal law.
    3.  A  security  guard  who  is  also  employed as a peace officer for
  eighteen months or  more  shall  be  exempt  from  the  requirements  of
  paragraph  e  of subdivision one of this section as long as he or she is
  currently employed as a  peace  officer  and  provides  to  his  or  her
  security  guard  employer  proof  of  such  annual  in-service  training
  required under paragraph e of subdivision one of this section.
    4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a security  guard
  who is:
    a.  a correction officer of any state correctional facility having the
  powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision twenty-five of section
  2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
    b. a  bridge  and  tunnel  officer,  sergeant  or  lieutenant  of  the
  Triborough  bridge  and  tunnel  authority  having the powers of a peace
  officer pursuant to subdivision twenty of section 2.10 of  the  criminal
  procedure law;

    c.  a  uniformed  court officer of the unified court system having the
  powers of a peace officer pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of  section
  2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
    d.  a  court  clerk  having  the powers of a peace officer pursuant to
  subdivision twenty-one of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
    e. a deputy sheriff having the powers of a peace officer  pursuant  to
  subdivision two of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law;
    f.  a police officer as defined in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
  (f), (j), (k), (l), (o) and (p) of subdivision  thirty-four  of  section
  1.20  of  the  criminal  procedure  law  who  has been retired from such
  employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
  a retired police officer who has been retired from such employment for a
  period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to  his
  or  her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of
  an  eight  hour  annual  in-service  training  course  approved  by  the
  commissioner,  and  provided  further,  however,  that  a retired police
  officer who will be required by his or her security  guard  employer  to
  carry  a firearm or will be authorized to have access to a firearm shall
  provide to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory completion  of
  a forty-seven hour firearms training course approved by the commissioner
  and,  if such firearms training course has not been completed within one
  year prior to such employment, satisfactory completion of an  additional
  eight  hour  annual  firearms in-service training course approved by the
  commissioner, such training course to be completed at least annually; or
    g. a  peace  officer  as  defined  in  subdivisions  two,  twenty  and
  twenty-five  and paragraphs a and b of subdivision twenty-one of section
  2.10 of the criminal procedure  law  who  has  been  retired  from  such
  employment for a period not to exceed ten years, provided, however, that
  a  retired peace officer who has been retired from such employment for a
  period in excess of ten years shall be required to provide proof to  his
  or  her security guard employer of his or her satisfactory completion of
  an  eight  hour  annual  in-service  training  course  approved  by  the
  municipal police training council, and provided further, however, that a
  retired  peace officer who will be required by his or her security guard
  employer to carry a firearm or will be authorized to have  access  to  a
  firearm  shall provide to such employer proof of his or her satisfactory
  completion of a forty-seven hour firearms training  course  approved  by
  the  municipal  police  training  council and, if such firearms training
  course has not been completed  within  one  year  prior  to  employment,
  satisfactory  completion  of  an  additional  eight hour annual firearms
  in-service training course approved by  the  municipal  police  training
  council, such training course to be completed at least annually.