N.Y. CVS Law § 83-A
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Creation of a police advisory board
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§ 83-a. Creation of a police advisory board. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of section seventy of the civil service law or any other\ngeneral, special or local law, rule or regulation, in any county, not\nwholly contained in a city, where the police agencies in such county\nwill be consolidated, the local legislative body of such county, if the\nnew or existing agency is a county police agency, or the local\nlegislative body of the new agency if it be other than a county police\nagency, shall notify the state civil service commission who shall create\na police advisory board. The purposes of such board will be to\nrecommend to the state civil service commission the rank to which\npresent employees would be assigned in the consolidated agency.\n
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