Senate Bill S9947

                             
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                                   9947
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 16, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 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.