Senate Bill S7191

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Incorporates the Main-Transit Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association and provides for its powers and duties

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S7191 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10043
Law Section:
Firefighters' Benevolent Association

2011-S7191 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Incorporates the Main-Transit Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association and provides for its powers and duties.

2011-S7191 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S7191 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7191

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 1, 2012
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to incorporate the Main-Transit  Volunteer  Exempt  Firefighter's
  Benevolent Association and providing for its powers and duties

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Incorporation; membership. A not-for-profit corporation  by
the  name  of  "Main-Transit  Volunteer  Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent
Association" is hereby created. It shall be  composed  of  such  persons
eligible  to  membership  therein  as hereinafter provided and shall (a)
notify the secretary of Main-Transit Fire Department, a  volunteer  fire
company,  in  writing  prior  to  the  organization  meeting hereinafter
provided for of the corporation created by this act of their  desire  to
become members, or (b) shall attend such meeting or an adjournment ther-
eof,  and also such persons so eligible as may thereafter become members
of such corporation pursuant to its by-laws.
  S 2. Persons eligible to membership. All persons who are now, or  have
been, or hereafter shall be active volunteer members of the Main-Transit
Fire  Department  in  the  town  of Amherst, county of Erie, or any fire
corporation in the Main-Transit Fire Department fire protection district
in such town and who have acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status
of exempt volunteer firefighter as defined in section 200 of the general
municipal law by virtue of having rendered service in  the  Main-Transit
Fire  Department,  or  in  a  fire  corporation in the Main-Transit Fire
Department fire protection district, and all  persons  who  are  now  or
hereafter  shall  be  active  volunteer members of the Main-Transit Fire
Department, shall be eligible for membership in the association  created
by this act, except that any firefighter who has been removed for cause,
expelled  or  dropped from the rolls of any fire company or fire depart-
ment, and who has not been reinstated therein, shall not be eligible for
membership in such corporation. The membership of  any  person  in  such
corporation  shall terminate when his/her membership as an active volun-
teer member of the Main-Transit Fire Department shall  terminate  before
such  person  shall  have  acquired the status of exempt volunteer fire-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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