Bill Text: NY S06768 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Exempts the Village of Port Dickinson 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 (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - SIGNED CHAP.185 [S06768 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06768-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6768--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accord- ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- 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 Village of Port Dickinson Fire Department from the requirement that the percent- age 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 476 of the laws of 2018, 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 14 Schenectady, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivision 15 shall not apply to membership of the village of Port Dickinson Fire 16 Department, within the village of Port Dickinson, Broome County. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13909-03-0