Bill Text: NY A10418 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Exempts the Ardsley Volunteer Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-31 - substituted by s9316a [A10418 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10418-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10418--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Abinanti) --
          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 village law, in relation to exempting the Ardsley
          Volunteer Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage  of
          non-resident fire department members not exceed  forty-five percent of
          the membership

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 10-1006 of  the  village  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  385  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. The membership of any volunteer firefighter shall not be  continued
     5  pursuant  to  subdivision five of this section, and persons shall not be
     6  elected to membership pursuant to subdivision six of this  section,  if,
     7  by  so  doing,  the  percentage of such non-resident members in the fire
     8  company would exceed forty-five per centum of the actual  membership  of
     9  the fire company, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivi-
    10  sion shall not apply to the membership of the village of Blasdell volun-
    11  teer  fire  department,  provided  however,  that the provisions of this
    12  subdivision shall not apply to the membership of the village of Delanson
    13  volunteer fire company in the village of Delanson, county of  Schenecta-
    14  dy,  provided however, that the provisions of this subdivision shall not
    15  apply to membership of the village of Port  Dickinson  Fire  Department,
    16  within  the  village of Port Dickinson, Broome County, provided however,
    17  that the provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to  the  member-
    18  ship  of  the  village  of  Briarcliff Manor fire department, within the
    19  village of Briarcliff Manor, county of  Westchester,  provided  however,
    20  that  the  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to the member-
    21  ship of the village of Ardsley volunteer  fire  department,  within  the
    22  village of Ardsley, county of Westchester.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15889-03-2