Bill Text: NY A05744 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a fire company may elect to include call firefighters within its membership who shall receive a stipend for each call that he or she responds to.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to local governments [A05744 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05744-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5744

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general municipal law, in relation to call fire-
          fighters

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

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 201-a to read as follows:
     3    § 201-a. Call firefighters.  Any volunteer fire company of  a  county,
     4  city,  town,  village,  fire  district,  fire protection district or any
     5  other entity that operates  a  volunteer  fire  company,  may  elect  to
     6  include within its membership, call firefighters. Such call firefighters
     7  shall serve at the call of the fire company, and shall receive a stipend
     8  each time such call firefighter responds to a call by such fire company.
     9  The  amount of such stipend shall be determined by the fire company, but
    10  shall not exceed fifty dollars per call or five thousand dollars annual-
    11  ly per call firefighter.  Call firefighters shall meet all criteria  and
    12  requirements  necessary  to  be a volunteer firefighter.  Candidates for
    13  call firefighters shall apply to the fire company in a manner  and  form
    14  to  be  determined  by such fire company. Call firefighters shall in all
    15  respects be afforded the status and benefits of  volunteer  firefighters
    16  and  shall  be  eligible  to  participate in the length of service award
    17  program, provided however that call firefighters shall not  be  entitled
    18  to any pension or retirement benefits afforded to full-time professional
    19  firefighters.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07329-01-3