Rosato v. Hasenhauer

OPINION OF THE COURT

Leo F. Hayes, J.

The petitioner John D. Rosato is a security guard with the Oneida County Sheriff’s Department. On February 8, 1982, he got in a fracas with one of the inmates and suffered a disabling knee injury. Respondents continued to pay petitioner his regular salary as provided by section 207-c of the General Municipal Law, which provides in pertinent part: “1 * * * [A]ny member of a police force of any county, city of less than one million population, town or village, or of any district, agency, board, body or commission thereof, who is injured in the performance of…