S5573-2011 Actions

• Jun 21, 2012: referred to codes
• Jun 21, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 21, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 18, 2012: AMENDED ON THIRD READING 5573D
• Jun 13, 2012: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1224
• Jun 13, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 11, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 5573C
• Jun 11, 2012: AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Mar 9, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 5573B
• Mar 9, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jan 23, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 5573A
• Jan 23, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Jun 17, 2011: referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
• Jun 17, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jun 17, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Jun 14, 2011: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1258
• Jun 13, 2011: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 2, 2011: REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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S5573-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S5573

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and traffic
law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Authorizes certain organizations to
be known as "fire patrols" under the not-for-profit corporation law.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1. A new section, �1413 is added to the not-for-profit law.

Section 2. �101 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended.

Section 3. � 115-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended.

Section 4. Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Fire patrols operated throughout New York and the
nation as parts of boards of fire underwriters. With the dissolution
of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters in 2010, the New York Fire
Patrol--which suspended operations in 2006--ceased to exist.
However, a number of private, non-profit fire patrols still operate
throughout the State, assisting fire departments, other public safety
agencies and property owners with property protection against impacts
from fire, smoke and water. This bill provides certain rights and
restrictions upon such operations, restoring several of the powers
once enjoyed by the former fire patrols.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New legislation.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

S5573-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         5573
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 June 2, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
 and Commissions
 AN  ACT  to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the vehicle and
 traffic law, in relation to the operation of fire patrols
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a
 new section 1413 to read as follows:

 

S 1413. FIRE PATROLS.
 (A) ANY ORGANIZATION INCORPORATED ON OR AFTER APRIL FIRST,  TWO  THOU
 SAND  TEN  UNDER  THIS  CHAPTER  FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROTECTING LIFE AND
 PROPERTY THROUGH THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT  MEANS  OF  MODERN  SALVAGE  AND
 PROPERTY DAMAGE MITIGATION TECHNIQUES, OF SAVING OR REDUCING THE LOSS OF
 PROPERTY  EXPOSED TO WATER, SMOKE OR GASSES, AND THEREBY REDUCING LOSSES
 TO PROPERTY OWNERS, AND OF OTHER  PUBLIC  BENEFITS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THE
 COURSE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DUTIES WHEN DULY AUTHORIZED THEREBY, SHALL BE
 GOVERNED BY THIS CHAPTER AND SHALL BE KNOWN AS  AND  MAY  USE  THE  TERM
 "FIRE PATROLS" TO DESCRIBE SUCH ENTITY.
 (B)  NOTHING  IN  THIS  CHAPTER SHALL PRECLUDE ANY ENTITY IN EXISTENCE
 PRIOR TO APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN AND ORGANIZED UNDER THIS  CHAPTER
 OR  ITS  PREDECESSOR ARTICLES, FOR PURPOSES SIMILAR TO THOSE IN SUBDIVI
 SION (A) OF THIS SECTION AND OPERATING AS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THIS
 SECTION  UNDER  THE  NAME OF A FIRE PATROL, FROM HOLDING ITSELF OUT AS A
 FIRE PATROL AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THIS SECTION.
 (C) FIRE PATROLS, IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PURPOSES, INCLUDING BUT  NOT
 LIMITED  TO  ASSISTING  FIRE DEPARTMENTS OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES, SHALL
 HAVE THE POWER TO ENTER ANY BUILDING ON FIRE OR WHICH MAY BE EXPOSED  TO
 OR  IN  DANGER  OF  LOSS  OR DAMAGE BY FIRE, SMOKE OR WATER, OR IN WHICH
 PROPERTY MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSS OR DAMAGE FROM FIRE, SMOKE  OR  WATER,
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11834-01-1
 
       S. 5573                             2
 AND  TO  PROTECT  AND  ENDEAVOR  TO  SAVE THE PROPERTY THEREIN AND, WHEN
 NECESSARY, TO REMOVE SUCH PROPERTY OR ANY PART THEREOF.
 (D)  ANY VEHICLE AFFILIATED WITH A FIRE PATROL SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A
 FIRE VEHICLE AND THEREBY AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS ONE
 HUNDRED ONE AND ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND
 GOVERNED BY SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FOUR OF SUCH  LAW.  THE  VEHICLES  OF
 SUCH  FIRE  PATROL SHALL ALSO BE DEEMED TO BE EMERGENCY VEHICLES FOR THE
 PURPOSES OF SECTION TWO THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-FIVE-A  OF  THE
 INSURANCE LAW.
 

S 2.

Section 101 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter
 446 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:

 

S  101.  Authorized emergency vehicle. Every ambulance, police vehicle
 or bicycle, correction vehicle, fire vehicle, FIRE PATROL VEHICLE, civil
 defense emergency vehicle, emergency ambulance  service  vehicle,  blood
 delivery  vehicle,  county  emergency medical services vehicle, environ
 mental emergency response vehicle, sanitation patrol vehicle,  hazardous
 materials  emergency  vehicle and ordnance disposal vehicle of the armed
 forces of the United States.
 

S 3. The opening paragraph of section 115-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, as amended by chapter 176 of the laws of 1973, is amended  to  read
 as follows:

 Every  vehicle operated for fire service purposes owned and identified
 as being owned by the state, a public authority, a county,  town,  city,
 village  or  fire  district,  or  a  fire  corporation  subject  to  the
 provisions of subdivision (e) of section fourteen  hundred  two  of  the
 not-for-profit  corporation  law  [or],  a  fire  company  as defined in
 section one hundred of the general municipal law OR  A  FIRE  PATROL  AS
 DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION (A) OF SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN OF THE
 NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW.  Any of the following vehicles shall  be
 fire  vehicles  only  for the purpose of section one hundred one of this
 [chapter] ARTICLE:

 

S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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