Assembly Bill A11061

                             
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                                   11061
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  chapter  63  of  the  laws of 1971 incorporating the
   "Centerport Volunteer Exempt  Firemen's  Benevolent  Association"  and
   providing for its powers and duties, in relation to the collection and
   use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Sections 1, 2 and 7 of chapter  63  of  the  laws  of  1971
 incorporating  the  "Centerport  Volunteer  Exempt  Firemen's Benevolent
 Association" and providing for its powers and  duties,  are  amended  to
 read as follows:
   Section  1. Incorporation: membership. A not-for-profit corporation by
 the name  of  "Centerport  Volunteer  Exempt  [Firemen's]  FIREFIGHTER'S
 Benevolent  Association" is hereby created. It shall be composed of such
 persons eligible to membership therein as hereinafter provided as  shall
 (a)  notify  the  secretary of the Centerport Fire Department Company, a
 volunteer fire company, in writing prior to the organization meeting  of
 such  corporation  hereinafter  provided  for  of their desire to become
 members, or (b) shall attend such meeting or an adjournment thereof, and
 also such persons so eligible as may thereafter become members  of  such
 corporation, pursuant to its by-laws.
   §  2. Persons eligible to membership. All persons who are now, or have
 been, or hereafter shall be active volunteer members of  the  Centerport
 Fire  Department  Company, in the town of Huntington, County of Suffolk,
 or of any fire corporation in the Centerport Fire District in such  town
 and  who  have  acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status of exempt
 volunteer [fireman] FIREFIGHTER as defined in section two hundred of the
 general municipal law by  virtue  of  having  rendered  service  in  the
 Centerport  Fire  Department  Company  or  in  a fire corporation in the
 Centerport Fire District, and all persons who are now or hereafter shall
 be active volunteer members of the Centerport  Fire  Department  Company
 shall be eligible for membership in the corporation created by this act,
 except  that  any  [fireman] FIREFIGHTER who has been removed for cause,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 expelled or dropped from the rolls of any fire company or  fire  depart-
 ment, 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 when [his] THEIR membership as an active or
 volunteer member of the Centerport Fire Department Company shall  termi-
 nate  before such person shall have acquired the status of exempt volun-
 teer [fireman] FIREFIGHTER as defined in  section  two  hundred  of  the
 general  municipal  law  by  virtue  of  having  rendered service in the
 Centerport Fire Department Company.
   § 7. Precept for payment of  foreign  fire  insurance  premium  taxes.
 Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of any general, special or local
 law,  or  of  any  city  charter or ordinance, heretofore or hereinafter
 enacted, such corporation shall collect and there shall be  paid  to  it
 all  taxes  imposed  by section [five hundred fifty-three] NINE THOUSAND
 ONE HUNDRED FOUR of the insurance law for fire department use and  bene-
 fit, upon premiums for insurance against loss or damage by fire covering
 property  situated  in the Centerport Fire District in the Town of Hunt-
 ington, County of Suffolk, or within any  duly  organized  territory  in
 which  the  Centerport Fire Department Company is or may be obligated to
 render fire protection. The officer of said  corporation  designated  by
 its  by-laws  to  collect  and  receive the aforesaid tax shall have the
 powers and be subject to all the provisions of the insurance law, relat-
 ing to treasurers of fire departments. Such corporation  shall  also  be
 entitled  to receive a share of the tax imposed by section [five hundred
 fifty-four] NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FIVE of the insurance  law,  based
 upon  the  business written in the territory with respect to which it is
 entitled to collect and receive the  tax  under  section  [five  hundred
 fifty-three]  NINE  THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FOUR of the insurance law. Such
 taxes shall only be used [for the care and relief of disabled  or  indi-
 gent  volunteer  and exempt volunteer firemen and their families] BY THE
 CORPORATION IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PURPOSES AS SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE
 OF THIS ACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.