§ 1266-h. Authority police force. 1. The authority is hereby\nauthorized and empowered, to provide and maintain an authority police\ndepartment and a uniformed authority police force. Each member of such\nuniformed police force shall be a "police officer" for the purposes of\nthe criminal procedure law, with all of the powers of such police\nofficers thereunder and subject to the same jurisdictional provisions on\nthe exercise of that power as set forth in such law. The geographical\narea of employment of such police officers for the purposes of the\ncriminal procedure law shall embrace the metropolitan commuter\ntransportation district as defined in section twelve hundred sixty-two\nof this title. Such department and force shall have the power, in and\nabout any or all of the facilities owned, occupied and/or operated by\nthe authority and its subsidiary corporations, the New York city transit\nauthority and its subsidiaries, and the triborough bridge and tunnel\nauthority, as determined in the discretion of the authority, to enforce\nand prevent violation of all laws and ordinances. Nothing herein shall\nconfer upon the authority police force or upon their collective\nnegotiations representatives exclusive jurisdiction or claim over the\nexercise of police power or security work on behalf of the authority and\nits subsidiary corporations, the New York city transit authority and its\nsubsidiaries, and the triborough bridge and tunnel authority. Nothing\nherein shall limit the authority and its subsidiary corporations, the\nNew York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, and the triborough\nbridge and tunnel authority from continuing to rely on local police for\npolice services. However, traditional police functions previously\nperformed by the Long Island Rail Road Company and/or the Metro-North\nCommuter Railroad Company police force shall continue to be performed by\nthe authority police forces.\n 2. Initial appointments to such authority police force shall be all\nincumbent police officers from the Long Island Rail Road Company and/or\nthe Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company at the time of such\nappointment. The executive director of the authority, through the chief\nof police, shall have the power and authority to appoint and employ such\nnumber of police officers as he deems necessary to act as police\nofficers of the authority and to administer to the officers an oath or\naffirmation faithfully to perform the duties of their respective\npositions or offices. Unless, at the time of appointment, the person is\na police officer of Long Island Rail Road Company or Metro-North\nCommuter Railroad Company, only persons who have never been convicted of\na felony and are citizens of the United States shall be appointed police\nofficers on the authority police force. After the initial appointments\nare made, selection of police officer candidates shall be made pursuant\nto an examination process to be determined at the discretion of the\nauthority and candidates must receive a certificate attesting to\nsatisfactory completion of an approved municipal police basic training\nprogram, as described in section two hundred nine-q of the general\nmunicipal law. No person shall be eligible for appointment unless such\nperson is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of\nappointment nor more than thirty-five years of age as of the date when\nthe applicant takes the written examination, provided, however, that\ntime spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a total\nof six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant who has\npassed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in subdivision ten-a\nof section two hundred forty-three of the military law. Upon\nappointments made by transferring an entire group of police officers\ninto the authority police force, thereby eliminating such other group of\npolice officers, the authority shall recognize any representative\npreviously chosen by the p
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