2006 New York Code - Qualification For Employment As A County Correction Officer.

 
    §  217-a. Qualification for employment as a county correction officer.
  A county may adopt the provisions contained in section  twenty-two-a  of
  the  correction  law relating to qualifications of its officials who may
  thereafter be appointed in a law enforcement  capacity  in  any  of  its
  penal  correctional institutions. Any determination that would otherwise
  be made by the  commissioner  or  his  designee  of  the  department  of
  correctional  services  under  the provisions of section twenty-two-a of
  the correction law, shall, if such provisions are so adopted, be made by
  the appointing authority for such officials.