Bill Text: NY A05400 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5400 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Woodmere, Nassau County, New York, Inc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-07 - substituted by s6582a [A05400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05400-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5400--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  M. MILLER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the Nassau county civil divisions act, in relation to
          the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Woodmere,
          Nassau County, New York, Inc.

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

     1    Section  1. Section 556.0 of the Nassau county civil divisions act, as
     2  amended by chapter 73 of the  laws  of  1940,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    §  556.0  Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.
     5  a.  Such corporation shall collect and there shall be paid to it all tax
     6  imposed by section [five hundred fifty-three] nine thousand one  hundred
     7  four  of the insurance law, for the fire department use and benefit upon
     8  premiums [on policies of] for insurance against loss or damage  by  fire
     9  covering property situated within the Woodmere fire district of the town
    10  of  Woodmere, [or] Nassau County, New York and within any duly organized
    11  territory in which the Woodmere fire department [is] may be obligated to
    12  render fire protection. [Such corporation,  however,  shall  remit  such
    13  percentage of all such taxes so collected or paid to it, to the treasur-
    14  er  of  the  firemen's  association  of the state of New York, as may be
    15  required by the insurance law.]
    16    b. The officer of [such] said corporation designated by its by-laws to
    17  collect and receive the aforesaid tax shall have all the same powers and
    18  be subject to all the provisions of section [five  hundred  fifty-three]
    19  nine  thousand one hundred four of the insurance law, relating to treas-
    20  urers of fire departments.
    21    c. Such corporation shall also be entitled to receive a share  of  the
    22  tax  imposed  by  section  [five  hundred  fifty-four] nine thousand one
    23  hundred five of the insurance law, based upon the  business  written  in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08716-02-1

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     1  the  territory  with  respect  to  which  it  is entitled to collect and
     2  receive the tax under section [five hundred fifty-three]  nine  thousand
     3  one hundred four of the insurance law.
     4    d.  Such taxes shall only be used [for the care and relief of disabled
     5  or indigent volunteer and exempt firemen  and  their  families]  by  the
     6  corporation in furtherance of its purposes as set forth in section 552.0
     7  of this act.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.