Bill Text: NY A09218 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to volunteer membership of the Monsey fire district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - referred to local governments [A09218 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09218-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9218
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 7, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Local Governments
       AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to the Monsey fire district in
         Rockland county
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 176-b of the town
    2  law, as separately amended by section 3 of part EE  of  chapter  56  and
    3  chapters  114,  270  and  272 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
    4  follows:
    5    (a) The membership of any volunteer firefighter shall not be continued
    6  pursuant to subdivision five of this section, and persons shall  not  be
    7  elected  to  membership pursuant to subdivision six of this section, if,
    8  by so doing, the percentage of such non-resident  members  in  the  fire
    9  company  would  exceed forty-five per centum of the actual membership of
   10  the fire company, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivi-
   11  sion shall not apply to the memberships of the  Shelter  Island  Heights
   12  fire  district,  the  Cherry  Grove fire district, the Fire Island Pines
   13  fire district, the Davis Park  fire  department,  and  the  Cold  Spring
   14  Harbor  fire  district in Suffolk county, the New Hampton fire district,
   15  the Mechanicstown fire district, the Pocatello fire district, the  Wash-
   16  ington  Heights  fire district and the Good Will fire district in Orange
   17  county, the Jericho fire district, the Westbury fire  district  and  the
   18  Roslyn  Rescue  Hook  and  Ladder  Company,  No. 1 in Nassau county, the
   19  Orangeburg fire district in Rockland county,  the  South  Lockport  Fire
   20  Company  and the Terry's Corners volunteer fire company in Niagara Coun-
   21  ty, the Taunton fire district and the Onondaga Hill fire  department  in
   22  Onondaga  county, the Town of Batavia fire department in Genesee County,
   23  the Schuyler Heights fire district, the Boght  Community  fire  district
   24  and  the  Slingerlands  fire  district  I  in Albany county, the town of
   25  Providence fire  district  in  Saratoga  county,  the  River  Road  fire
   26  district, No. 3 and the Armor Volunteer Fire Company in Erie county, the
   27  Sir William Johnson Fire Company in Fulton county, the Fort Johnson Fire
   28  district  in  Montgomery  county or the memberships of the Millwood fire
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14095-01-2
       A. 9218                             2
    1  district, the Purchase  Fire  District,  the  North  Castle  South  Fire
    2  District, No. 1 in Westchester county, the Thornwood fire company, No. 1
    3  in Westchester county [and], the Rockland Lake fire district in Rockland
    4  county AND THE MONSEY FIRE DISTRICT IN ROCKLAND COUNTY.
    5    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.