Bill Text: NY S00426 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a county to enter into a municipal cooperative agreement with any municipal corporation, fire district, fire protection district, fire alarm district, or ambulance district within the county to provide joint emergency medical services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00426-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           426

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  allowing  a
          county  to  enter  into  a  municipal cooperative agreement to provide
          joint emergency medical services

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  122-b of the general municipal law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Any county  may  enter  into  a  municipal  cooperative  agreement,
     4  subject  to  the  provisions of article five-G of this chapter, with any
     5  municipal corporation, fire district,  fire  protection  district,  fire
     6  alarm  district, ambulance district, or not-for-profit ambulance service
     7  within the county, in order to finance and provide an emergency  medical
     8  service,  a general ambulance service or a combination of such services,
     9  as a joint service,  pursuant  to  this  section,  and  subject  to  the
    10  restrictions  of  subdivision four of section two hundred nine-b of this
    11  chapter. Pursuant to the municipal cooperative agreement, any county may
    12  contract with one or more individuals, associations, or other  organiza-
    13  tions  to  implement  the  municipal cooperative agreement authorized by
    14  this subdivision. The expenses of providing such joint service shall  be
    15  assessed,  levied and collected from all lots and parcels of land within
    16  the county which receive such joint service provided, however, that such
    17  charges shall not be assessed on any lot or parcel that  receives  emer-
    18  gency  medical  service,  general  ambulance service or a combination of
    19  such  services  from  a  municipal  corporation,  fire  district,   fire
    20  protection  district  or  ambulance  district that is not a party to the
    21  municipal cooperative agreement. Nothing in this  subdivision  shall  be
    22  construed  as  mandating  the  participation  of  any existing municipal
    23  corporation,  fire  district,  fire   protection   district,   ambulance

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02312-01-3
        S. 426                              2

     1  district,  or  not-for-profit ambulance service which currently provides
     2  such services.  Emergency medical services provided for pursuant to this
     3  subdivision shall be deemed essential services.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.