N.Y. CNT Law § 662

§ 662. Appointment of private college campus security officers at\nindependent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision\nof law to the contrary, the sheriff of any county, any part or all of\nwhich falls outside the limits of a city having a population of one\nmillion or more, may appoint as private college campus security officers\nsecurity guards employed by an independent non-profit college upon the\nrequest of such independent non-profit college in accordance with the\nprovisions of subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of\nthe education law. The sheriff may appoint such campus security officers\npursuant to this section only if more than fifty percent of the total\nacreage of real property owned by or under the control of such\nindependent non-profit college is located within such sheriff's county\nof jurisdiction and outside the geographic boundaries of any city within\nsuch county and the county legislature or board of supervisors, pursuant\nto local law or resolution duly adopted, has authorized the sheriff to\nmake such appointments. Any such security guards appointed as campus\nsecurity officers shall be employees of the independent non-profit\ncollege requesting such appointment and shall not be officers, agents,\nservants or employees of the appointing sheriff or his county of\njurisdiction nor be considered public officers, agents, servants or\nemployees. Such campus security officers shall have only those powers\nset forth in subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the\neducation law.\n 2. The sheriff may condition appointment as private college campus\nsecurity officers upon compliance by such campus security officers with\nwritten procedures established by the sheriff in order to ensure a\ncoordinated and cooperative law enforcement effort and the payment of an\nadministrative fee not to exceed fifty dollars per year per campus\nsecurity officer and may revoke such appointments at any time for\nmaterial non-compliance with the requirements of such written procedures\nor subdivision five of section sixty-four hundred fifty of the education\nlaw or for any other reason that shall disqualify a security guard from\nbeing such a campus security officer pursuant to the provisions of such\nsubdivision.\n