Assembly Bill A11023

Signed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the residency requirement for the Boght Community fire district in Albany county

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  • 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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2009-A11023 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7872
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §176-b, Town L

2009-A11023 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the residency requirement for the Boght Community fire district in Albany county; authorizes more than 45% of membership from outside the district boundaries.

2009-A11023 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  11023

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 10, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Local Governments

AN  ACT  to  amend the town law, in relation to volunteer members of the
  Boght Community fire district

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  7 of section 176-b of the town law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 302, 314, 468 and 474 of the laws of 2009, is
amended to read as follows:
  7. The membership of any volunteer firefighter shall not be  continued
pursuant  to  subdivision five of this section, and persons shall not be
elected to membership pursuant to subdivision six of this  section,  if,
by  so  doing,  the  percentage of such non-resident members in the fire
company would exceed forty-five per centum of the actual  membership  of
the fire company, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivi-
sion  shall  not  apply to the memberships of the Shelter Island Heights
fire district, the Cherry Grove fire district,  the  Fire  Island  Pines
fire  district,  the  Davis  Park  fire  department, and the Cold Spring
Harbor fire district in Suffolk county, the New Hampton  fire  district,
the  Mechanicstown fire district, the Pocatello fire district, the Wash-
ington Heights fire district and the Good Will fire district  in  Orange
county,  the  Jericho  fire  district  and the Westbury fire district in
Nassau county, the Orangeburg fire  district  in  Rockland  county,  the
South  Lockport  Fire  Company  and  the  Terry's Corners volunteer fire
company in Niagara County, the Taunton fire district  and  the  Onondaga
Hill  fire  department  in  Onondaga  county,  the  Town of Batavia fire
department in Genesee County, the Schuyler Heights  fire  district,  THE
BOGHT  COMMUNITY  FIRE  DISTRICT and the Slingerlands fire district I in
Albany county, the town of Providence fire district in Saratoga  county,
the  River  Road  fire  district,  No. 3 in Erie county, the Sir William
Johnson Fire Company in Fulton county, the Fort Johnson Fire district in
Montgomery county or the memberships of the Millwood fire district,  the
Purchase  Fire  District, the North Castle South Fire District, No. 1 in
Westchester county, the Thornwood fire company,  No.  1  in  Westchester
county and the Rockland Lake fire district in Rockland county.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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