Bill Text: NY A04778 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms the Penn Yan fire department length of service award program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-09-23 - signed chap.359 [A04778 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A04778-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4778--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 8, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Governments in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to legalize, validate, ratify and confirm the Penn Yan fire department length of service award program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all proceedings 2 and actions taken by the village of Penn Yan, county of Yates, in 3 relation to creating a length of service award program for the Penn Yan 4 fire department in 1999 pursuant to article 11-A of the general munici- 5 pal law, including the adoption of a point system whereby volunteer 6 firefighters may participate in various activities of the fire depart- 7 ment during the course of a year in order to earn sufficient points to 8 be credited with a year of service toward qualifying benefits, are here- 9 by legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed provided that such 10 village has adopted a length of service award program, including a point 11 system, that is in compliance with the general municipal law, and 12 provided further that such village's length of service award program 13 fund is currently sufficiently funded to cover the costs of such length 14 of service award program and point system that was in violation of the 15 general municipal law. 16 S 2. The Penn Yan fire department length of service award program 17 described in section one of this act shall be deemed to have been in 18 full force and effect on and after January 1, 1999, and volunteer fire- 19 fighters participating in such service award program during the period 20 beginning January 1, 1999 and ending December 31, 2011 shall be credited 21 with points for participation in activities of such fire department in 22 accordance with the point system adopted by the village of Penn Yan. 23 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01272-02-4