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                                    957
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 598 of the laws of 1938 relating to  incorporat-
   ing  the  volunteer  and  exempt  firemen's  benevolent association of
   Briarcliff Manor, New York, and providing for its powers  and  duties,
   in relation to precept of payment of foreign fire insurance companies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1 and section 8 of chapter 598  of
 the  laws  of  1938  relating  to incorporating the volunteer and exempt
 firemen's benevolent association of  Briarcliff  Manor,  New  York,  and
 providing for its powers and duties, as amended by a chapter of the laws
 of  2020  amending  chapter 598 of the laws of 1938 relating to changing
 the form of the benevolent from a corporation to an unincorporated asso-
 ciation, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.8531  and  A.10313,
 are amended to read as follows:
   2.  All  persons  who  now are or have been, or who hereafter shall be
 volunteer members of the village of Briarcliff Manor fire department, or
 of any fire engine, hook and ladder, patrol, emergency rescue  squad  or
 hose  company in the village of Briarcliff Manor or in any fire district
 outside of but contiguous to such fire district which contracts with the
 village of Briarcliff Manor for fire protection pursuant to the  law  in
 such  case  made and provided, and all persons in any such fire district
 and in such village who are entitled to the general exemptions of  fire-
 fighters  therein  as  provided  in section two hundred-a of the general
 municipal law, and two hundred nine of the village law,  [and  successor
 statutes]  respectively,  and  acts  amendatory  thereof or supplemental
 thereto; or of any other applicable law, shall be eligible to membership
 therein.

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

                                                            LBD07129-01-1

 A. 957                              2
 
   § 8. Precept of payment of foreign  fire  insurance  companies.    The
 association  shall collect and there shall be paid to it all tax imposed
 by section [one hundred thirty-three] NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOUR  of
 the  insurance  law[, and successor statutes,] upon premiums on policies
 of insurance covering property situated within the village of Briarcliff
 Manor, Westchester county, New York, or within any duly organized terri-
 tory  in which the fire department of said fire district is obligated to
 render fire protection, except that the  association  shall  remit  such
 percentage  of all taxes so collected or paid to it, to the treasurer of
 the firemen's association of the state of New York, as may  be  required
 by  the  insurance law. The officer of the association designated by its
 by-laws to collect and receive the aforesaid  tax  shall  have  all  the
 powers  and  be  subject  to  all the provisions of section [one hundred
 thirty-three] NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOUR of the insurance  law  [and
 successor statutes], relating to the treasurer of fire departments.  The
 association shall also be entitled to receive a share of the tax imposed
 by  section [one hundred forty-nine-a] NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIVE of
 the insurance law, [and successor statutes,]  based  upon  the  business
 written in the territory with respect to which it is entitled to collect
 and  receive the tax under section [one hundred thirty-three] NINE THOU-
 SAND ONE HUNDRED FOUR of the insurance law [and successor statutes]. The
 association shall also be entitled to  receive  and  collect  all  taxes
 heretofore  due  and owing and unpaid at the time of the creation of the
 association.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending chapter 598 of the laws
 of  1938  relating  to changing the form of the benevolent from a corpo-
 ration to an unincorporated  association,  as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S.8531 and A.10313, takes effect.