Bill Text: NY A05351 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A05351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05351-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5351

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the establish-
          ment of special districts for general ambulance  services  within  the
          Adirondack park

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of  subdivision  1  of  section
     2  122-b of the general municipal law, paragraphs (d) and (f) as amended by
     3  chapter  303 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph (e) as amended by section
     4  2 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, are amended  and  a  new
     5  closing paragraph is added to read as follows:
     6    (d)  Establish  a  special district for the financing and operation of
     7  general ambulance services as set forth by  this  section,  whereby  any
     8  county,  city,  town  or  village, either wholly or partially within the
     9  Adirondack park, acting individually, or jointly with any other  county,
    10  city, town and/or village, either wholly or partially within the Adiron-
    11  dack  park,  through  its governing body or bodies, following applicable
    12  procedures as are required for the establishment of  fire  districts  in
    13  article eleven of the town law or following applicable procedures as are
    14  required  for  the  establishment  of  joint  fire  districts in article
    15  eleven-A of the town law, with such special district being authorized by
    16  this section to be established in all or any part of  any  such  partic-
    17  ipating county or counties, town or towns, city or cities and/or village
    18  or villages;
    19    (e) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
    20  (b) [or], (c) or (d) of this subdivision;
    21    [(e)] (f) A contract may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
    22  this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
    23  of  a fire department or fire company which is subject to the provisions
    24  of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    [(f)] (g)  Consider  prehospital  emergency  treatment  as  that  care
     2  provided   by  certified  emergency  medical  technicians  or  certified
     3  advanced  emergency  medical  technicians  certified  pursuant  to   the
     4  provisions of article thirty of the public health law.
     5    Any county, city, town or village which establishes or participates in
     6  a  joint  district  pursuant  to paragraph (d) of this subdivision shall
     7  dissolve and abolish any preexisting local  district  serving  the  same
     8  jurisdiction.
     9    §  2.  Paragraph  (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the general
    10  municipal law, as amended by chapter 303 of the laws of 1980, is amended
    11  to read as follows:
    12    [(e)] (f) No contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions
    13  of this section for the services of an emergency rescue  and  first  aid
    14  squad  of  a  fire  department  or  fire company which is subject to the
    15  provisions of section two hundred nine-b of [the general municipal  law]
    16  this chapter;
    17    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    18  the amendments to paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the
    19  general municipal law made by section one of this act shall  be  subject
    20  to  the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4
    21  of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, when upon  such  date  the
    22  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.