§ 1601 — Marshals to continue in office; appointment of marshals; vacancies

§ 1601. Marshals to continue in office; appointment of marshals;\nvacancies. 1. No more than eighty-three city marshals shall be appointed\nby the mayor. Upon the expiration of the terms of office of the duly\nappointed incumbents the mayor shall appoint their successors for terms\nof five years. Every marshal shall be, at the time of his or her\nappointment and during his or her term of office, a domiciliary of the\ncity of New York or of the county of Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk,\nOrange, Rockland or Putnam, and his or her removal from the city or one\nof such counties shall vacate his or her office. If a vacancy in the\noffice of a marshal shall occur otherwise than by the expiration of a\nterm the person appointed by the mayor to fill such vacancy shall hold\noffice for the unexpired term of the marshal whom he or she succeeds.\n 2. An independent committee on city marshals is hereby created. The\ncommittee shall consist of fifteen members, of whom six shall be\nselected by the mayor, three each shall be selected by the presiding\njustices of the first and second judicial departments and three shall be\nselected by the deans of law schools located within the city of New\nYork. Performance of this function shall be rotated annually among such\neligible deans. The members chosen by the mayor and the presiding\njustices shall serve for a term concurrent with the mayor's term of\noffice. The members chosen by the law school deans shall serve one year.\nVacancies in the committee shall be filled in the same manner as initial\nappointments.\n 3. The committee shall establish and publish criteria for the\nappointment of marshals and shall recommend up to three qualified\npersons meeting such criteria for each appointment to the office of city\nmarshal to be made by the mayor. In addition to any criteria established\nby the committee, all persons to be recommended to the mayor shall be\nrequired to provide to the department of investigation of the city of\nNew York or any successor agency thereto, information relating to their\nbackground and financial resources in a form prescribed by such\ndepartment. All communications to the committee, and its proceedings and\nall applications, correspondence, interviews, transcripts, reports and\nall other papers, files and records of the committee shall be\nconfidential and shall be exempt from public disclosure.\n 4. No person shall be appointed to the office of city marshal except\nupon the recommendation of the committee on city marshals. No person\nshall be recommended to the mayor for appointment or reappointment as a\nmarshal unless (i) a report on such person's background has been\nreceived by the committee from the department of investigation, and (ii)\nin the case of a reappointment, the committee has reviewed his or her\nrecord of performance in office and has determined it to be\nsatisfactory.\n 5. The mayor shall, by executive order, establish or authorize the\ncommittee to establish such procedures to be followed by the committee\nin its review and recommendation of candidates for the office of city\nmarshal as are consistent with the provisions of this article and as may\nbe necessary to effectuate its purposes.\n