NY Gen Mun L § 209-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 209-E - Fire Mobilization and Mutual Aid Plan.

§  209-e.  Fire  mobilization  and mutual aid plan. 1. Plan. The state   fire administrator shall prepare a state fire  mobilization  and  mutual   aid  plan  which  may provide for the establishment of fire mobilization   and mutual aid zones of the state. Upon filing of the plan in the office   of fire prevention and control such plan shall  become  the  state  fire   mobilization  and mutual aid plan. Such plan may be amended from time to   time in the same manner as originally adopted.2. Regional fire administrators.  The  state  fire  administrator  may   appoint   and  remove  a  regional  fire  administrator  for  each  fire   mobilization and mutual aid zone established pursuant to the state  fire   mobilization  and mutual aid plan. Before he or she enters on the duties   of the office, each regional fire administrator shall take and subscribe   before  an  officer  authorized  by  law   to   administer   oaths   the   constitutional oath of office, which shall be administered and certified   by  the  officer taking the same without compensation and shall be filed   in the office of the secretary of state.3. Regulations. The commissioner of the division of homeland  security   and   emergency   services,   in   consultation   with  the  state  fire   administrator, may make regulations and issue orders which he or she may   deem necessary to implement the state fire mobilization and  mutual  aid   plan and carry out the purposes of this section.4.  Powers.  Whenever  a  county, city, town, village or fire district   shall request, or whenever the governor shall determine that the  public   interest  so  requires,  the  state fire administrator shall possess and   exercise the powers, functions and duties set forth in  the  state  fire   mobilization and mutual aid plan.5.  Standard  thread.  The state fire mobilization and mutual aid plan   shall prescribe a standard hose thread for the state, and  each  county,   city,  town,  village or fire district not equipped with the same may be   required either to  recut  its  threads  to  such  standard  or  provide   adapters whereby the same may be brought to such standards.6. Records. The state fire administrator shall keep a permanent public   record  of the activations of the state fire mobilization and mutual aid   plan, showing how, when  and  where  it  was  activated  and  when  such   activation was terminated.7.   Reimbursement   of   assisting  municipal  corporations  or  fire   districts.  Whenever the governor activates the state fire  mobilization   and mutual aid plan pursuant to subdivision four of this section, claims   submitted  by  an  assisting  municipal corporation or fire district for   expenses allowed by subdivision two of section  two  hundred  nine-g  of   this  article made in performance of its duties on behalf of a receiving   municipality or fire district pursuant to such plan may be reimbursed in   the first instance by the state from any local assistance  appropriation   established  for  such  purpose. Reimbursements of such claims from such   appropriation may be made only upon certification of such claim  by  the   state  fire  administrator  to  the  state comptroller and audit of such   claim by the state comptroller prior to payment. Expenditures  for  such   reimbursements  from  such appropriation shall be considered a liability   for outside aid as described in  section  two  hundred  nine-g  of  this   article  and  shall  be  repaid  by  the  municipality  or fire district   receiving assistance pursuant to the state fire mobilization and  mutual   aid plan.8.  Hazardous  materials  incident  plan. The state fire administrator   shall prepare a hazardous materials incident plan which shall complement   and become a part of the  plan  required  by  subdivision  one  of  this   section.    The plan shall provide for the mobilization and coordination   of fire service resources in response to emergencies  which  involve  or   may  involve hazardous materials and shall establish hazardous materials    incidents response zones and criteria for recognized regional  hazardous   materials  incidents  response  teams. The office of fire prevention and   control, by and through the state fire administrator or his or her  duly   authorized  officers  and  employees, is authorized to approve grants of   funds from monies allocated and appropriated therefor  for  expenditures   of municipal corporations for hazardous materials incidents planning and   equipment,  pursuant  to applicable rules and regulations promulgated by   the commissioner of the division  of  homeland  security  and  emergency   services,  in  consultation  with  the  state  fire  administrator,  and   approved by the director of the budget.