NY State Senate Bill 2019-S3265

Senate Bill S3265

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain organizations in N.Y. city to be known as "fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation law

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Jan 08, 2020	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Feb 05, 2019	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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2019-S3265 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6808
Current Committee:: Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:: Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1413, N-PC L; amd §§101 & 115-a, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5573, A8117
2013-2014: S3981, A5253
2015-2016: S2544, A503
2017-2018: S2604, A1376
2021-2022: S6163, A6715
2023-2024: S5041

2019-S3265 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain organizations in a city of one million or more to be known as "fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation law and includes fire patrol vehicles as emergency vehicles under the vehicle and traffic law.

2019-S3265 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3265

SPONSOR: LANZA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and
traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols; and providing
for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Authorizes certain organizations to be known law operating in the as
"fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation county of Richmond.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1. A new section, § 1413 is added to the not-for-profit corpo-
ration law.

Section 2. § 101 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended.

Section 3.  § 115-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended.

Section 4.  Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Fire patrols operated throughout New York and the nation as parts of
boards of fire underwriters. With the dissolution of the New York Board
of Fire Underwriters in 2010, the New York Fire Patrol, which suspended
operations in 2006, ceased to exist. However, a private, non-profit fire
patrol still operates in the county of Richmond, Staten Island. This
Fire Patrol assists fire departments, other public safety agencies and
property owners with property protection against impacts from fire,
smoke and water damage. While executing these duties, Fire Patrol
responders do not travel in personal vehicles while assisting in such
emergencies. Furthermore, all who belong to this private, non-profit
fire patrol must take a mandatory emergency driving course as set forth
in the bill. This bill also provides that a fire patrol operating in
Richmond County may offer educational programs or other non-response
activities. Thus, the bill restores several of the powers once enjoyed
by the former fire patrols.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018:S.2604 - Passed Senate/A.1376- Referred to Codes
2017: S.2604 - Passed Senate/A.1376- Referred to Corporations
2016: S.2544 - Passed Senate/A.503 - Reported to Rules
2015: S.2544 - Passed Senate/A.503 - Reported to Rules
2014: S.3981 - Passed Senate/A.5253 - Reported to Rules
2013: S.3981 - Passed Senate/A.5253 - Reported to Rules
2012: S.5573-D - Passed Senate/ A.8117-D - Died in Rules
2011: S.5573- Passed Senate / A.8117 -- Referred to Corporations

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed
repealed 5 years after such date.

2019-S3265 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3265
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and
   traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols; and provid-
   ing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a
 new section 1413 to read as follows:
 § 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
   (A) "FIRE PATROL" MEANS ANY ENTITY WHOSE SERVICES  INCLUDE  PROTECTING
 LIFE AND PROPERTY THROUGH THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT MEANS OF MODERN SALVAGE
 AND  PROPERTY  DAMAGE  MITIGATION  TECHNIQUES, OF SAVING OR REDUCING THE
 LOSS OF PROPERTY EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASSES, AND THEREBY REDUCING
 LOSSES TO PROPERTY OWNERS, AND OF OTHER PUBLIC BENEFITS,  INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT  LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES IN
 THE COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE  DUTIES  WHEN  DULY  AUTHORIZED  THEREBY,
 SHALL  BE GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS AND MAY USE THE
 TERM "FIRE PATROL" OR "FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH ENTITY.  NO  OTHER
 ENTITY  SHALL  USE SUCH TERMS.  ANY FIRE PATROL INCORPORATED ON OR AFTER
 APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN SHALL ONLY OPERATE WITHIN  THE  BOUNDARIES
 OF RICHMOND COUNTY.
   (B)  NOTHING  IN  THIS CHAPTER SHALL PERMIT ANY FIRE PATROL TO OPERATE
 AND PROVIDE EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES EXCEPT IN RESPONSE TO PROPERTIES
 LOCATED COMPLETELY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF RICHMOND COUNTY NOR TO OPER-
 ATE AS A SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO ANY FIRE PATROL INCORPORATED OR  WHICH
 OPERATED PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN.
   (C)  FIRE  PATROLS,  IN THE EXECUTION OF THEIR PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO ASSISTING FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER  PUBLIC  AGENCIES  IN
 THE COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES, SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD00078-01-9

 S. 3265                             2
 
 BUILDING  ON  FIRE  OR  WHICH  MAY BE EXPOSED TO OR IN DANGER OF LOSS OR
 DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH PROPERTY MAY BE IN DANGER OF
 LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, AND TO PROTECT AND ENDEAVOR TO
 SAVE  THE  PROPERTY THEREIN AND, WHEN NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY
 OR ANY PART THEREOF; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE  OFFICER  OF  THE  FIRE
 DEPARTMENT  OR  AGENCY  IN  CHARGE AT THE SCENE OF ANY FIRE OR EMERGENCY
 EXPRESSLY PERMITS THE FIRE PATROL TO ENTER THE PROPERTY  PRIOR  TO  SUCH
 ENTRY  AND SUCH ENTRY DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH THE ACTIONS OF THE MEMBERS
 OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC AGENCY TO  WHICH  THE  FIRE  PATROL  IS
 RENDERING  ASSISTANCE,  AND THE FIRE PATROL SHALL IN ALL RESPECTS AND AT
 ALL TIMES WHEN RENDERING ASSISTANCE TO A FIRE DEPARTMENT OR PUBLIC AGEN-
 CY SHALL BE SUBORDINATE TO AND UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FIRE  DEPARTMENT
 OR  PUBLIC AGENCY TO WHICH ASSISTANCE IS RENDERED.  NOTHING HEREIN SHALL
 LIMIT OR PROHIBIT THE FIRE PATROL SO OPERATING  TO  CONDUCT  EDUCATIONAL
 PROGRAMS  OR  OTHER  NON-RESPONSE ACTIVITIES CONSISTENT WITH ITS MISSION
 AND STANDING AS A DULY ORGANIZED AND  RECOGNIZED  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  CORPO-
 RATION IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE STATE IN ADDITION TO RICHMOND COUNTY.
   § 2. Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
   §  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
 or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
 defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance  service  vehicle,  blood
 delivery  vehicle,  county  emergency medical services vehicle, environ-
 mental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle,  hazardous
 materials  emergency  vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed
 forces of the United States.
   § 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   Every  vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and identified
 as being owned by the state, a public authority, a county,  town,  city,
 village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
 provisions of [subdivision] PARAGRAPH (e) of  section  fourteen  hundred
 two  of  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a fire company as
 defined in section one hundred of the general municipal law  OR  A  FIRE
 PATROL  AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN
 OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.   Any of the  following  vehicles
 shall  be  fire vehicles only for the purpose of section one hundred one
 of this [chapter] ARTICLE:
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed 5 years after such date.

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Andrew J. Lanza