NY Town L § 172-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts 172-C - Alteration of Boundaries of Fire Protection District.

§  172-c.  Alteration  of  boundaries of fire protection district. The   town board of a town in which any  fire  protection  district  has  been   established,  or if established in two or more towns, the town boards of   such towns acting jointly by a majority vote of the members of  each  of   such  town boards, upon petition and after a public hearing, or upon the   motion of such town board or town boards after  a  public  hearing,  may   alter the boundaries of such fire protection district in accordance with   such  petition  or  motion  and  exclude  from  the  district  territory   previously located therein. Such petition, if any, shall  be  signed  by   resident  taxpayers  owning  taxable  real property aggregating at least   one-half of the assessed valuation of  all  the  taxable  real  property   owned by resident taxpayers in the territory to be excluded and at least   one-half  of  the  assessed  valuation  of all the taxable real property   owned by resident taxpayers in the remaining territory of the  district.   The  assessed valuations in either case shall be the assessed valuations   of  the  taxable  real  property  as  shown  by  the  latest   completed   assessment-roll of the town. Such petition, if any, shall be signed, and   acknowledged  or  proved in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, or   authenticated in the  manner  provided  by  the  election  law  for  the   authentication of nominating petitions.  Notice of such hearing shall be   given and such hearing held and the subject matter thereof determined in   the  manner  provided herein for hearings upon the establishment of fire   protection districts, except that the notice of hearing shall  state  in   general  terms the purposes of the hearing and the manner in which it is   proposed to  alter  the  boundaries  of  the  district.  Any  resolution   altering  the  boundaries  of  such  fire  protection district made upon   motion of the town board or town boards  without  a  petition  shall  be   subject  to a permissive referendum as provided in article seven of this   chapter. For the purposes of this section, the boundaries of  such  fire   protection  district  shall be deemed to be altered pursuant to petition   of  resident  taxpayers  and  the  territory  described  in  the  notice   excluded,  upon  the  adoption  by  the town board or town boards of the   resolution providing therefor, unless such resolution shall specify some   other date for such purpose, in which  case  such  boundaries  shall  be   deemed  to  be  altered  and  such  territory  excluded  on  the date so   specified, and such alteration of boundaries upon  motion  of  the  town   board  or  town  boards  without  a  petition  shall become effective as   provided in section ninety-one of this chapter.    Unless  renegotiated,   any  existing  contract for the supplying of fire protection to any such   fire protection district shall be carried out in the same manner  as  if   such  boundaries  had  not  been  altered or territory excluded from the   district.