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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 7 of the laws of 1955, relating to incorporating
   the  Hauppauge  Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association, and
   providing for its powers and duties, in relation to the name  of  such
   association and the 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  7  of  the  laws  of  1955,
 relating  to  incorporating  the  Hauppauge  Volunteer  Exempt Firemen's
 Benevolent Association, and providing for its  powers  and  duties,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   Section  1. Incorporation; membership. A membership corporation by the
 name of "Hauppauge 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 Hauppauge fire department in  writing  prior
 to the organization meeting of such corporation hereinafter provided for
 their  desire  to become members, or (b) shall attend such meeting or an
 adjournment thereof, and also such persons so  eligible  as  may  become
 members of such corporation pursuant to its by-laws.
   §  2. Persons eligible to membership. All persons who are now, or have
 been, or who hereafter shall be  volunteer  members  of  Hauppauge  fire
 district  fire  department,  or  of  any  fire  corporation in such fire
 district, and all persons resident in such fire district or in territory
 provided with fire protection by contract with such  fire  district  who
 are  exempt  volunteer  [firemen] FIREFIGHTERS as defined by section two
 hundred of the general municipal law, shall be eligible to membership in
 the corporation hereby created; provided that any person  who  has  been
 expelled  or  removed  for  cause from membership in any fire company or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 department shall not be eligible  to  membership  in  such  corporation.
 Whenever  a  member who is not an exempt [fireman] VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER
 as defined by section two hundred of the  general  municipal  law  shall
 move  from  such  fire  district  or  from  territory provided with fire
 protection as aforesaid or if the territory in which  a  member  resides
 shall  no  longer  be  provided  with  such  fire protection, [his] SUCH
 MEMBER'S membership in such corporation shall cease.
   § 7. Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. Such
 corporation shall collect and there  shall  be  paid  to  it  all  taxes
 imposed by section [five hundred fifty-three] 9104 of the insurance law,
 for fire department use and benefit, upon premiums for insurance against
 loss  or  damage by fire covering property situated within the territory
 protected by the Hauppauge fire department,  located  partially  in  the
 town  of  Smithtown  and partially in the town of Islip, Suffolk county,
 New York, or within any duly organized territory in which the  Hauppauge
 fire  department  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 all the powers and be subject to
 all the provisions of the insurance law, relating 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]  9105  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] 9104 of the insurance law. Such taxes
 shall  only  be  used  [for  the care and relief of disabled or indigent
 volunteer and exempt volunteer firemen and their families] BY THE CORPO-
 RATION IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PURPOSES AS SET FORTH IN SECTION  THREE  OF
 THIS ACT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided however, that
 the amendments to section 7 of chapter 7 of the laws  of  1955  made  by
 section one of this act shall apply to taxes due on premiums received on
 and after January 1, 2026.