Assembly Actions -
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Feb 06, 2024 |
referred to local government |
Senate Bill S8505
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 40th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-S8505 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9125
- Current Committee:
- Senate Local Government
- Law Section:
- Firefighters' Benevolent Association
2023-S8505 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8505 SPONSOR: HARCKHAM TITLE OF BILL: An act to incorporate the Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Asso- ciation and providing for its powers and duties PURPOSE: Incorporates the Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Association and provides for its powers and duties. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one creates the not-for-profit corporation by the name of "Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Association". Section 2 provides that all persons who are now, or have been, or here- after shall be active volunteer members of the Bedford Hills Fire Department in the county of Westchester, and who have acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status of exempt volunteer fire-fighter as defined
2023-S8505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8505 I N S E N A T E February 6, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to incorporate the Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Asso- ciation and providing for its powers and duties THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Incorporation; membership. A not-for-profit corporation by the name of "Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Association" is hereby created. It shall be composed of such persons eligible to member- ship therein as hereinafter provided and shall (a) notify the secretary of the Bedford Hills Fire Department, a volunteer fire department, in writing prior to the organization meeting hereinafter provided for of the corporation created by this act of their desire to become members, or (b) attend such meeting or an adjournment thereof and signify their intention of becoming members of such corporation at such meeting, or (c) notify the secretary of the corporation hereby created in writing within sixty days after his or her election of their desire to become members thereof, and also such persons so eligible as may thereafter become members of such corporation pursuant to its by-laws. § 2. Persons eligible for membership. All persons who are now, or have been, or hereafter shall be active volunteer members of the Bedford Hills Fire Department in the county of Westchester, and who have acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status of exempt volunteer fire- fighter as defined in section 200 of the general municipal law by virtue of having rendered service in the Bedford Hills Fire Department, shall be eligible for membership in the corporation created by this act, except that any firefighter who has been removed for cause, expelled or dropped from the rolls of the Bedford Hills Fire Department, and who has not been reinstated therein, shall not be eligible for membership in such corporation. The membership of any person in such corporation shall terminate upon the withdrawal of such person as an active volunteer member of the Bedford Hills Fire Department prior to the actual perform- ance by such person of five years' service as an active volunteer member of the Bedford Hills Fire Department. Paid firefighters, if any, of the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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