Bill Text: NY S02596 | 2021-2022 | 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 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02596-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2596

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        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 include
     6  emergency duties in connection with  fire  department  or  fire  company
     7  operations 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.
                                                                   LBD04543-01-1
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