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                                   7951
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 23, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend  the  town  law,  in  relation  to  making  a  technical
   correction  relating  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 430 of the laws of 2016, 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  one
 hundred thousand dollars but not below twenty thousand dollars, if, when
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 and  in the manner and to the extent authorized so to do in a resolution
 which shall be subject to a permissive referendum governed in the manner
 provided in subdivision [four] SEVEN of section  six-g  of  the  general
 municipal  law  and except also that the board of fire commissioners may
 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 twenty thousand dollars.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.