Senate Bill S5206

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §58-a, Civ Serv L; add §204-dd, Gen Muni L

2019-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs six or more paid firefighters.

2019-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5206
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN  ACT to amend the civil service law and the general municipal law, in
   relation to the minimum qualifications to serve as a fire chief in any
   fire department,  fire  district  or  fire  protection  district  that
   employs six or more paid firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section
 58-a of the civil service law, subdivision 6 as  amended  and  paragraph
 (b)  of  subdivision  7 as added by chapter 406 of the laws of 2018, are
 amended to read as follows:
   6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to appointments made
 by any county, city, town, village or fire district which employs [fewer
 than five] FIVE OR FEWER fire fighters.
   (b) has successfully completed  training  and  education  [courses  of
 minimum  contact hour criteria approved] REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED by the
 state fire administrator [and  received  certification  for  supervisory
 level 1 or higher pursuant to 19 NYCRR 427.9].
   §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
 204-dd to read as follows:
   § 204-DD. QUALIFICATIONS OF A FIRE CHIEF. NO PERSON SHALL BE  ELIGIBLE
 FOR APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION AS THE FIRE CHIEF, OR ANY TITLE OR RANK THAT
 INCLUDES THE DUTIES OF THE CHIEF, IN ANY FIRE DEPARTMENT OR FIRE COMPANY
 WITH  SIX OR MORE PAID FIREFIGHTERS, UNLESS HE OR SHE MEETS THE REQUIRE-
 MENTS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FIFTY-EIGHT-A
 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM
 FIREFIGHTER  SHALL  MEAN  A  MEMBER  OF  A  FIRE DEPARTMENT WHOSE DUTIES
 INCLUDE FIRE SERVICE AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH D OF SUBDIVISION ELEVEN  OF
 SECTION THREE HUNDRED TWO OF THE RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11078-01-9

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