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Senate Bill S963

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Increases the value of the assets that the fire department of the village of Owego is authorized to own from $10,000 to $500,000

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2013-S963 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5903
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Firefighters
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1, Chap 297 of 1862

2013-S963 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the value of the assets that the fire department of the village of Owego is authorized to own from $10,000 to $500,000.

2013-S963 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S963 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   963

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend chapter 297 of the laws of 1862, incorporating the  fire
  department  of  the  village  of  Owego, in relation to increasing the
  value of real and personal property authorized  to  be  held  by  such
  department

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

  Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 297 of the laws of 1862, incorporating
the fire department of the village of  Owego,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  Section  1.  All persons who now are or hereafter shall become members
of any fire engine, hook and ladder or hose company  now  organized,  or
which hereafter be organized by the trustees of the village of Owego, in
the  county  of  Tioga,  in conformity with the charter of said village,
shall be and are hereby ordained and  constituted  a  body  politic  and
corporate  in  fact  and in name, by the name of "The Fire Department of
the village of Owego," and by that name they and their successors  shall
have perpetual succession, and shall have a common seal, and may sue and
be  sued  in  any  of  the courts of the state, by or in the name of the
president of the said fire department; and also they and  their  succes-
sors,  by  their corporate name, may purchase, receive by gift or other-
wise, and hold and convey any real estate or personal property  for  the
use  and  benefit  of  said corporation, provided the amount of real and
personal estate so held shall not exceed the sum of [ten]  FIVE  HUNDRED
thousand dollars.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04556-01-3

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