Section 662. Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges


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  • 1. Notwithstanding any other  provision
      of  law  to  the contrary, the sheriff of any county, any part or all of
      which falls outside the limits of a city  having  a  population  of  one
      million or more, may appoint as private college campus security officers
      security  guards  employed by an independent non-profit college upon the
      request of such independent non-profit college in  accordance  with  the
      provisions  of  subdivision  five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of
      the education law. The sheriff may appoint such campus security officers
      pursuant to this section only if more than fifty percent  of  the  total
      acreage  of  real  property  owned  by  or  under  the  control  of such
      independent non-profit college is located within such  sheriff's  county
      of jurisdiction and outside the geographic boundaries of any city within
      such county and the county legislature or board of supervisors, pursuant
      to  local  law or resolution duly adopted, has authorized the sheriff to
      make such appointments. Any such security  guards  appointed  as  campus
      security  officers  shall  be  employees  of  the independent non-profit
      college requesting such appointment and shall not be  officers,  agents,
      servants  or  employees  of  the  appointing  sheriff  or  his county of
      jurisdiction nor be considered  public  officers,  agents,  servants  or
      employees.    Such campus security officers shall have only those powers
      set forth in subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the
      education law.
        2. The sheriff may condition appointment  as  private  college  campus
      security  officers upon compliance by such campus security officers with
      written procedures established by the  sheriff  in  order  to  ensure  a
      coordinated and cooperative law enforcement effort and the payment of an
      administrative  fee  not  to  exceed  fifty  dollars per year per campus
      security officer and may  revoke  such  appointments  at  any  time  for
      material non-compliance with the requirements of such written procedures
      or subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the education
      law  or for any other reason that shall disqualify a security guard from
      being such a campus security officer pursuant to the provisions of  such
      subdivision.