Removes provisions of law relating to sheriffs; includes sheriffs within the term "employee" for the purposes of defense and indemnification in the public officers law.
Enacts "local control for speed limits"; authorizes cities, villages, and towns to adjust the speed limit to lower than fifty-five miles per hour, but not less than twenty-five miles per hour, for portions of state highways that are particularly dangerous.
Adds Falls Brook, Jones Brook, Kelso Brook, Minerva Stream, and Trout Brook to the definition of inland waterways for the purposes of waterfront revitalization.
Updates the admission criteria for the science and technology entry program and collegiate science and technology entry program to consider whether a student is a member of an ethnic group that is underrepresented in the eligible profession they are pursuing.
Relates to the educational and examination requirements for certification as a certified interior designer; provides an exemption from the education requirements for architects licensed under article one hundred forty-seven of the education law.
Provides for the issuance of operating certificates for federally organized, operated or authorized Indian health service facilities with addictions programs to operate as providers of chemical dependence services following certain attestations.
Relates to adult-use cannabis advertising and marketing; requires advertisements only be placed where seventy-five percent of the audience is reasonably expected to be twenty-one years of age or older, as determined by commercially available reliable, up-to-date audience composition data; provides that all requirements for warnings to be included in audio only advertisements shall not exceed more than fifteen percent of an advertisement's total time.
Establishes the "county of Westchester public works investment act" which allows the county of Westchester, or any department, division, agency, office or subdivision thereof to utilize design-build project delivery.
Authorizes the commissioner of the department of civil service to reinstate Jarrod Iler on the eligible civil service list for employment as a police officer in the city of Saratoga Springs.