Senate Bill S9026

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the appointment of fire chiefs and assistant chiefs

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government 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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2023-S9026 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9940
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§176 & 176-a, Town L

2023-S9026 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the appointment of fire chiefs and assistant chiefs who are employees of a fire district.

2023-S9026 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9026 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9026
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to permitting employees  of  a
   fire department to serve as fire chief or assistant fire chief
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 11-a of section    176  of  the  town  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  351  of  the  laws  of 2000, is amended to read as
 follows:
   11-a. The members of the fire department of the  fire  district  shall
 meet  at  a time and place designated by the board of fire commissioners
 on the Thursday following the first Tuesday in April of  each  year  and
 nominate  persons  WHO MAY BE EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT, for the offices
 of chief and such assistant chiefs as may be provided for in  the  rules
 and  regulations  adopted  by  the  board  of fire commissioners. If the
 Thursday following the first Tuesday  in  April  falls  upon  a  day  of
 special religious observance, the board of fire commissioners may desig-
 nate  any  other  weekday  in  April after such Thursday as the day upon
 which to hold such meeting. Each nominee shall be a member of  the  fire
 department.  In  addition, the board of fire commissioners may by resol-
 ution require that any or all of such fire department officers shall  be
 residents of the fire district. All nominations shall be made by ballot.
 The person acting as secretary of such meeting shall promptly notify the
 fire  district  secretary  in  writing of such nominations. The board of
 fire commissioners at its meeting next succeeding  the  making  of  such
 nominations  shall consider the same and shall appoint such persons, WHO
 MAY BE EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT, to the offices to which they have been
 respectively nominated or, if a nomination is not approved the board  of
 fire commissioners shall call another meeting of the members of the fire
 department  at which a new nomination shall be made to take the place of
 any nomination not approved, which procedure shall continue until a full
 set of officers is approved. Any such person shall assume the duties  of
 [his] THEIR office as soon as [he] SUCH PERSON has been appointed there-
 to  by  the  board  of  fire commissioners and shall serve until [his] A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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