Authorizes the town board of any town, which does not have a fire district, to establish and operate a town fire department. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to requiring local building and planning regulations to accommodate the use of renewable energy resources such as solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal electric, geothermal ground source heat, tidal energy, wave energy, ocean thermal, and fuel cells using renewable fuels. /
Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes a procedure whereby the chief executive officer of a municipal corporation in which there is located privately owned forest lands which are exempt from real property taxes to make application to the state for reimbursement for revenues lost as a result of such exemption. /
Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Expands the products which may be purchased for public use by including renewable energy resources; increases the cost premium percentage for renewable energy generated in New York. /
Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends certain provisions of law relating to temporary investments by local governments. /
Sponsor: Farrell Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Repeals certain sections of the general municipal law, in relation to urban renewal agencies and industrial development agencies; transfers any books, records and remaining rights of any dissolved facility to an identifiable location. /
Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to temporary alternative methods of financing flood relief expenses. /
Sponsor: Magnarelli Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the establishment, extension, powers and expenses of watershed protection improvement districts. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes Mesivta Atres Yaakov to apply for a retroactive real property tax exemption for parcels in the town of Hempstead, county of Nassau. /
Sponsor: SKELOS Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the eligibility of certain town officers; relieves the town of Fishkill of residency requirements for the position of comptroller. /
Sponsor: Miller J Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes the county of Saratoga to discontinue for reforestation purposes the use of certain lands and to convey such lands. /
Sponsor: Sayward Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Authorizes a lease between the county of Onondaga and the Onondaga Yacht Club for boating and related recreational activities. /
Sponsor: Magnarelli Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Increases certain special accidental death benefits paid to widows, widowers or the deceased member's children. /
Sponsor: Markey Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Relates to the residency requirements for the position of constable in the village of West Hampton Dunes, county of Suffolk, to allow for the retention of current constables and enhance recruitment efforts for future personnel. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Legalizes, validates, ratifies and confirms certain transportation contracts of Hamburg central school district. /
Sponsor: Smardz Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Changes the poll hours for the Hyde Park Library District. /
Sponsor: Miller J Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Changes the poll hours for the Staatsburg Library District. /
Sponsor: Miller J Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends the authority for villages to hold tax lien sales. /
Sponsor: Schimel Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Extends, until January 1, 2017, the expiration of the electronic public bond sale pilot program for the county of Westchester; and makes technical corrections to the provisions of such program. /
Sponsor: Paulin Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Provides for a period of probable usefulness to the payment for a separation incentive program by the town of Southampton. /
Sponsor: Thiele Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT