Bill Text: NY S02270 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in a designated or marked off area that has been set up by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participant cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S02270 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02270-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2270 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 participants in youth programs sponsored by fire departments The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 204-b of the general municipal 2 law, as added by chapter 386 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. All activities of participants in such program shall be approved in 5 advance by the chief, or his or her designee. [No activities may include6emergency duties in connection with fire department or fire company7operations or any other hazardous activity.] Participants may respond to 8 an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in a designated or 9 marked off area that has been set up by the chief or officer in charge. 10 Such participant cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using 11 lights and/or sirens. Furthermore, such participants may not enter a 12 burning structure nor shall participants in a youth program pursuant to 13 this section fall under the definition of active volunteer firefighter 14 as defined in section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04286-01-3