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Senate Bill S1643

Signed By Governor

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Adds a local fire company to the list of companies and districts which are exempt from state limits on non-resident members

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2009-S1643 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4321
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง176-b, Town L

2009-S1643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds a local fire company, the Sir William Johnson Fire Company in Fulton County, to the list of companies and districts which are exempt from state limits on non-resident members.

2009-S1643 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 1643                                                  A. 4321

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                            February 3, 2009
                               ___________

IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ment

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once  and  referred
  to the Committee on Local Governments

AN  ACT  to amend the town law, in relation to certain local fire compa-
  nies

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  7 of section 176-b of the town law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 358, 378 and 380 of  the  laws  of  2008,  is
amended to read as follows:
  7.  The membership of any volunteer firefighter shall not be continued
pursuant to subdivision five of this section, and persons shall  not  be
elected  to  membership pursuant to subdivision six of this section, if,
by so doing, the percentage of such non-resident  members  in  the  fire
company  would  exceed forty-five per centum of the actual membership of
the fire company, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivi-
sion shall not apply to the memberships of the  Shelter  Island  Heights
fire  district,  the  Cherry  Grove fire district, the Fire Island Pines
fire district, the Davis Park  fire  department,  and  the  Cold  Spring
Harbor  fire  district in Suffolk county, the New Hampton fire district,
the Mechanicstown fire district and  the  Good  Will  fire  district  in
Orange  county, the Jericho fire district and the Westbury fire district
in Nassau county, the Orangeburg fire district in Rockland  county,  the
South  Lockport  Fire  Company  and  the  Terry's Corners volunteer fire
company in Niagara County, the Taunton fire district  and  the  Onondaga
Hill  fire  department  in  Onondaga  county,  the  Town of Batavia fire
department in Genesee County, the Schuyler Heights fire district and the
Slingerlands fire district I in Albany county, the  town  of  Providence

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07458-01-9

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