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Assembly Bill A9488

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Allows municipal volunteer fire department to have the option available to hold their annual meeting and election of company and chief officers in December of each year

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2013-A9488 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Village Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง10-1010, Vil L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A5366

2013-A9488 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows municipal volunteer fire department to have the option available to hold their annual meeting and election of company and chief officers in December of each year.

2013-A9488 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9488

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 2, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the village  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  municipal
  volunteer  fire  department to have the option available to hold their
  annual meeting and election of company and chief officers in  December
  of each year

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

  Section 1. Section 10-1010 of the village law, as amended  by  chapter
719 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
  S  10-1010  Election  of  company officers and delegates.  Each of the
several companies whose members constitute the fire  department  of  the
village  shall  hold  an  annual  meeting on EITHER the first Tuesday in
April in each year, OR AT THE OPTION  OF  A  VOLUNTEER  DEPARTMENT,  THE
FIRST  TUESDAY  IN DECEMBER IN EACH YEAR. IF A DEPARTMENT ELECTS TO HOLD
ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN DECEMBER, IT SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE TO  THE  GENERAL
PUBLIC  NEWS  OF THE SCHEDULING OF THE MEETING NO LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS
IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING. At such meeting the members of  each  company
shall  elect by ballot from their own number a captain and a lieutenant,
and such further officers if any as may be provided for in  the  by-laws
of the company, who must be approved by the board of fire commissioners,
one  warden  and  one  delegate  to  the  general convention of the fire
department. The terms of office of the captain and lieutenant  and  such
further officers if any, as are elected as herein provided, shall be one
year,  the wardens two years, and the delegates three years, respective-
ly, and any vacancies occurring in any such offices shall be  filled  by
election  in  like  manner. At the first annual meeting after this [act]
SECTION takes effect two wardens and three delegates shall  be  elected,
the wardens to serve for one and two years, respectively, and the deleg-
ates for one, two and three years, respectively. Any person who has been
convicted  of  arson in any degree shall not be eligible for election to
the office of  captain,  lieutenant,  warden,  delegate  and  any  other
offices  provided  for in the by-laws of the company. Any captain, lieu-
tenant, warden,  delegate  or  other  officer  of  the  company  who  is
convicted  of  arson  in  any  degree during his term of office shall be
disqualified from completing such term of office.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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