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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 23, 2016
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation  to  the  process  of  selling
  surplus fire equipment and vehicles

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 23 of section 176 of the town law,  as  amended
by chapter 288 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  23. May sell or otherwise dispose of real and personal property of the
district  no  longer  necessary for any of its uses or purposes if, when
and in the manner and to the extent authorized so to do in a proposition
which is duly submitted and adopted or approved at a special  or  annual
fire  district  election  in  the manner provided by section one hundred
seventy-nine OF THIS ARTICLE for voting upon appropriations, except that
if a proposition shall be submitted pursuant to the provisions  of  said
section  for  the  purchase  of  apparatus  or if a proposition shall be
submitted pursuant to the local finance law for the approval of  a  bond
resolution or a capital note resolution for obligations to be issued for
the  purchase  of apparatus, such proposition may specify that apparatus
or equipment owned by the district or the proceeds of the  sale  thereof
is to be used in part payment for new apparatus and the adoption of such
proposition  shall  authorize the sale or such other disposition of such
apparatus or equipment, or if apparatus or equipment is to be  purchased
without the submission of a proposition as aforesaid apparatus or equip-
ment owned by the district may be used as part payment for new apparatus
or  equipment without the adoption of a proposition therefor, and except
also that the board of fire commissioners may at any time sell or other-
wise dispose of real and personal property of  the  district  no  longer
necessary for any of its uses or purposes if valued at less than [fifty]
ONE  HUNDRED thousand dollars BUT NOT BELOW TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, if,
when and in the manner and to the extent authorized so to do in a resol-
ution which shall be subject to a permissive referendum governed in  the
manner  provided  in  subdivision  four  of section six-g of the general
municipal law and except also that the board of fire  commissioners  may

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

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at  any  time sell or otherwise dispose of real and personal property of
the district no longer necessary for any of its uses or purposes without
the adoption of a proposition therefor if the value  of  such  real  and
personal  property  does  not  exceed  the  sum of [ten] TWENTY thousand
dollars.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.