Bill Text: NY A05610 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits village volunteer fire companies in certain counties to enter into contracts to provide certain emergency services to a town in which the village is located without the consent of the village board or fire commissioners.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to local governments [A05610 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05610-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5610
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MORINELLO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to volunteer fire companies
          in certain counties
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  10-1004 of the village law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3    § 10-1004 Organization of companies. 1. The board of fire  commission-
     4  ers,  with the approval of the board of trustees, may organize and main-
     5  tain fire, hose, protective and hook and ladder companies,  whenever  in
     6  its judgment the public interests require. The board of fire commission-
     7  ers  may,  by  resolution,  with  the approval of the board of trustees,
     8  consent to the incorporation of any of the  companies  so  organized  by
     9  them,  or  may,  by  like  approval, consent to the incorporation or the
    10  organization without incorporation  of  as  many  companies  voluntarily
    11  organized in said village as may be deemed necessary.
    12    2.  (a)  A  village  fire, hose, protective or hook and ladder company
    13  located in any county having a  population  of  more  than  two  hundred
    14  sixteen  thousand but less than two hundred nineteen thousand may, with-
    15  out the consent of the village board of trustees or the village board of
    16  fire commissioners, enter into a contract to provide services to a  town
    17  in which the village is located provided that:
    18    (i)  the  services to be provided shall be limited to fire protection,
    19  general ambulance service, or emergency services in the  case  of  acci-
    20  dents, calamities or other emergencies, or any combination thereof; and
    21    (ii)  such  contract  shall  be an extension or renewal of an existing
    22  contract for such services in the town.
    23    (b) The village board of  trustees  may  not  abolish  a  fire,  hose,
    24  protective  or  hook  and  ladder company pursuant to section 10-1020 of
    25  this article based in whole or in part on the decision by  such  company
    26  to enter into such a contract extension or renewal.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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