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Assembly Bill A11211

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the town of Hamburg to extend the Big Tree fire protection district to include the village of Blasdell

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2025-A11211 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S10084
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Erie County

2025-A11211 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that once the board of trustees of the village of Blasdell abolishes its fire department, the town of Hamburg may extend the Big Tree fire protection district to include such village.

2025-A11211 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11211
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  authorize  the  town of Hamburg to extend the Big Tree fire
   protection district into the village of Blasdell
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any contrary provisions of article 11 of
 the town law, commencing upon the effective date of a resolution adopted
 by the board of trustees of the village of Blasdell, in  the  county  of
 Erie, pursuant to section 10-1020 of the village law abolishing the fire
 department  in  such  village, the town board of the town of Hamburg, in
 accordance with the procedures set forth in subdivision 2 of section 170
 of the town law, shall have the  power  to  extend  the  Big  Tree  fire
 protection  district,  located  in  the  town  of Hamburg to include and
 encompass the entire corporate limits of the village of Blasdell in such
 town.
   § 2. Upon the completion by the town of  Hamburg  of  the  proceedings
 authorized  by  section one of this act, the fire protection district in
 the town as extended shall be a fire protection district governed by the
 provisions of section 184 of the town law, and the town  board  of  such
 town  shall  have  all of the powers and duties vested in and imposed on
 town boards by section 184 of the town law, and shall be subject to  all
 of  the  limitations,  procedures  and  restrictions  set  forth in such
 section.
   § 3. On and after the completion  of  the  proceedings  authorized  by
 section  one  of  this act, the not-for-profit fire corporation incorpo-
 rated as the "Big Tree Volunteer Firemen's Company, Inc." shall maintain
 its corporate existence and may maintain apparatus and facilities within
 the village of Blasdell for the furnishing  of  fire  protection  if  it
 chooses.  Such  continued  presence in the village of Blasdell shall not
 render such fire corporation to be the fire department of such  village,
 nor shall it render such fire corporation to be under the control of the
 village  authorities  pursuant  to  paragraph (e) of section 1402 of the
 not-for-profit corporation law, provided, however, that for purposes  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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