Singer v. Berle

OPINION OF THE COURT

Jones, J.

Although forest rangers attached to the Department of Environmental Conservation may not be required to enforce the State Penal Law per se they may be assigned to campsite security details for the enforcement of the Environmental Conservation Law and rules and regulations promulgated *540thereunder, and the fact that conservation restrictions may parallel proscriptions of the Penal Law does not relieve them of their duty of enforcement.

Petitioner has been a duly appointed forest ranger in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, engaged primarily…