Bill Text: NY S06582 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Woodmere, Nassau County, New York, Inc.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.373 [S06582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06582-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6582--A
            Cal. No. 1105

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 7, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          reported  favorably  from  said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, amended on second report, ordered to a third reading,  and  to
          be  reprinted  as  amended,  retaining its place in the order of third
          reading

        AN ACT to amend the Nassau county civil divisions act,  in  relation  to
          the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Woodmere,
          Nassau County, New York, Inc.

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

     1    Section 1. Section 556.0 of the Nassau county civil divisions act,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  73  of  the  laws  of  1940, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    § 556.0 Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance  premium  taxes.
     5  a.  Such corporation shall collect and there shall be paid to it all tax
     6  imposed  by section [five hundred fifty-three] nine thousand one hundred
     7  four of the insurance law, for the fire department use and benefit  upon
     8  premiums  [on  policies of] for insurance against loss or damage by fire
     9  covering property situated within the Woodmere fire district of the town
    10  of Woodmere, [or] Nassau County, New York and within any duly  organized
    11  territory in which the Woodmere fire department [is] may be obligated to
    12  render  fire  protection.  [Such  corporation, however, shall remit such
    13  percentage of all such taxes so collected or paid to it, to the treasur-
    14  er of the firemen's association of the state of  New  York,  as  may  be
    15  required by the insurance law.]
    16    b. The officer of [such] said corporation designated by its by-laws to
    17  collect and receive the aforesaid tax shall have all the same powers and
    18  be  subject  to all the provisions of section [five hundred fifty-three]
    19  nine thousand one hundred four of the insurance law, relating to  treas-
    20  urers of fire departments.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08716-03-1
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     1    c.  Such  corporation shall also be entitled to receive a share of the
     2  tax imposed by section  [five  hundred  fifty-four]  nine  thousand  one
     3  hundred  five  of  the insurance law, based upon the business written in
     4  the territory with respect to  which  it  is  entitled  to  collect  and
     5  receive  the  tax under section [five hundred fifty-three] nine thousand
     6  one hundred four of the insurance law.
     7    d. Such taxes shall only be used [for the care and relief of  disabled
     8  or  indigent  volunteer  and  exempt  firemen and their families] by the
     9  corporation in furtherance of its purposes as set forth in section 552.0
    10  of this act.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.