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Assembly Bill A10089

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Bars persons who commit grand larceny from service award programs for volunteer firefighters

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2021-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §217, Gen Muni L

2021-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Bars persons who commit grand larceny from service award programs for volunteer firefighters.

2021-A10089 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10089
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the  general  municipal  law,  in  relation  to  barring
   persons  who  commit  grand  larceny  from  service award programs for
   volunteer firefighters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  (m)  of section 217 of the general municipal
 law, as added by chapter 617 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   (m)  A  participant  who  is  convicted of the crime of arson OR GRAND
 LARCENY in any degree as defined in the penal law shall not be  eligible
 to  receive  benefits from a service award program and shall forfeit any
 and all rights he or she may have had to past or future benefits  pursu-
 ant to a service award program.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15312-01-2

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