Senate Bill S5994

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Updates the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter

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Current Bill Status Via A7004 - Passed Senate


  • 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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2025-S5994 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7004
Law Section:
Firefighters' Benevolent Association
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1 - 4 & 7, Chap 260 of 1969

2025-S5994 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Updates the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter and provides for new duties of such charter.

2025-S5994 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5994 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5994
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 260 of the laws of 1969, relating to incorporat-
   ing the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent  Association
   and  providing for its powers and duties, in relation to updating such
   association's charter
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Sections  1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 of chapter 260 of the laws of
 1969, relating to incorporating the Pound Ridge Volunteer  Exempt  Fire-
 men's Benevolent Association and providing for its powers and duties, is
 amended to read as follows:
   Section  1. Incorporation: membership. A membership corporation by the
 name of "Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt [Firemen's] FIREFIGHTERS'  Benevo-
 lent  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 Pound Ridge Fire Department, Inc., a
 volunteer fire department, 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 fire depart-
 ment of the Pound Ridge Fire District, in the Town of Pound Ridge, Coun-
 ty of Westchester, or of any fire corporation in such Fire District, and
 who have acquired or shall hereafter acquire the status of exempt volun-
 teer [firemen] FIREFIGHTER as defined in  section  two  hundred  of  the
 general  municipal law by virtue of having rendered service in such fire
 department or fire corporation, and all persons who are now or hereafter
 shall be active volunteer members of  such  fire  department,  shall  be
 eligible  for  membership in the corporation created by this act, except
 that any [fireman] FIREFIGHTER who has been removed for cause,  expelled
 or  dropped  from  the rolls of any fire company or fire department, and
 
              

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