Bill Text: NY A07133 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - starred on calendar [A07133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07133-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7133--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 10, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, the general municipal law and the
          executive law, in relation to the minimum qualifications to serve as a
          fire chief in any fire department, fire district  or  fire  protection
          district that employs six or more paid firefighters

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section
     2  58-a of the civil service law, subdivision 6 as  amended  and  paragraph
     3  (b)  of  subdivision  7 as added by chapter 406 of the laws of 2018, are
     4  amended to read as follows:
     5    6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to appointments made
     6  by any county, city, town, village or fire district which employs [fewer
     7  than five] five or fewer fire fighters.
     8    (b) has successfully completed  training  and  education  [courses  of
     9  minimum  contact hour criteria approved] requirements established by the
    10  state fire administrator [and  received  certification  for  supervisory
    11  level 1 or higher pursuant to 19 NYCRR 427.9].
    12    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    13  204-dd to read as follows:
    14    § 204-dd. Qualifications of a fire chief. No person shall be  eligible
    15  for appointment or election as the fire chief, or any title or rank that
    16  includes the duties of the chief, in any fire department or fire company
    17  with  six or more paid firefighters, unless he or she meets the require-
    18  ments established pursuant to subdivision seven of section fifty-eight-a
    19  of the civil service law. For the purpose  of  this  section,  the  term
    20  firefighter  shall  mean  a  member  of  a  fire department whose duties
    21  include fire service as defined in paragraph d of subdivision eleven  of
    22  section three hundred two of the retirement and social security law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11078-02-9
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     1    §  3.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 159-d to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  159-d. Training for fire chiefs. The state fire administrator shall
     4  conduct the training and education required for fire chiefs pursuant  to
     5  subdivision seven of section fifty-eight-a of the civil service law with
     6  sufficient  frequency  to  enable  individuals  to satisfy the necessary
     7  qualifications for a fire chief pursuant to such section. To the  extent
     8  practicable,  such training and education shall be made available in all
     9  geographic regions of the state. Such regions shall be determined by the
    10  state fire administrator.
    11    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition  of  any
    13  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    14  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
    15  effective date.