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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 189-C - Legal Shipments of Gaming Devices Into New York State.

§  189-c.  Legal  shipments of gaming devices into New York state. All
  shipments into this state of gaming devices, excluding slot machines and
  coin operated gambling devices, as defined  in  subdivision  seven-a  of
  section 225.00 of the penal law, the registering, recording and labeling
  of  which  has  been  duly  had by the manufacturer or dealer thereof in
  accordance with sections three and four of an Act  of  Congress  of  the
  United  States  entitled  "An act to prohibit transportation of gambling
  devices in interstate and foreign commerce,"  approved  January  second,
  nineteen  hundred fifty-one, being chapter 1194, 64 Stat. 1134, and also
  designated as 15 U.S.C. (1171-1177), shall  be  deemed  legal  shipments
  thereof into this state.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 190-A - Raffles; License Not Required.

§  190-a.  Raffles;  license  not  required.  1.  Notwithstanding  the
licensing requirements set  forth  in  this  article  and  their  filing
requirements set forth in subdivision four of section one hundred ninety
of this article, an authorized organization may conduct a raffle without
complying  with such licensing requirements or such filing requirements,
provided, that such organization shall derive net proceeds from  raffles
in  an  amount less than five thousand dollars during the conduct of one
raffle and shall derive net proceeds from raffles in an amount less than
thirty thousand dollars during one calendar year.
2. (a) For the purposes of  this  section,  "authorized  organization"
shall   mean   and   include  any  bona  fide  religious  or  charitable
organization or bona fide educational, fraternal or service organization
or  bona  fide  organization  of  veterans,  volunteer  firefighters  or
volunteer   ambulance  workers  that  by  its  charter,  certificate  of
incorporation, constitution, or act of the legislature,  has  among  its
dominant  purposes one or more of the lawful purposes as defined in this
article, provided that each shall operate without profit to its  members
and  provided  that each such organization has engaged in serving one or
more of the lawful purposes as defined in this article for a  period  of
one  year  immediately  prior  to  being  granted the filing requirement
exemption contained in subdivision one of this section.
(b) No organization shall be deemed an authorized organization that is
formed primarily for the purpose of conducting games of chance and  that
does not devote at least seventy-five percent of its activities to other
than  conducting  games of chance. No political party shall be deemed an
authorized organization.
3. No person under the age of eighteen shall  be  permitted  to  play,
operate or assist in any raffle conducted pursuant to this section.
4. No raffle shall be conducted pursuant to this section except within
a  municipality  in  which the authorized organization is domiciled that
has passed a local law,  ordinance  or  resolution  in  accordance  with
sections  one  hundred eighty-seven and one hundred eighty-eight of this
article approving the conduct of games of chance, and in  municipalities
which  have  passed  a  local law, ordinance or resolution in accordance
with sections one hundred eighty-seven and one hundred  eighty-eight  of
this  article  approving the conduct of games of chance that are located
within the county or contiguous to the county in which the  organization
is domiciled.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 192 - Hearing; Amendment of License.

§  192.  Hearing;  amendment  of  license.  1.  No application for the
  issuance of a license to conduct games of chance or lease premises to an
  authorized organization shall be denied  by  the  clerk  or  department,
  until after a hearing, held on due notice to the applicant, at which the
  applicant  shall  be entitled to be heard upon the qualifications of the
  applicant and the merits of the application.
2. Any  license  issued  under  this  article  may  be  amended,  upon
  application  made  to  such  clerk or department which issued it, if the
  subject matter of the proposed amendment  could  lawfully  and  properly
  have  been  included  in  the  original license and upon payment of such
  additional license fee if any, as would have been payable if it had been
  so included.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 193 - Form and Contents of License; Display of License.

§  193.  Form  and  contents  of  license; display of license. 1. Each
  license to conduct games of chance shall be in such  form  as  shall  be
  prescribed  in  the  rules and regulations promulgated by the board, and
  shall contain a statement of the name and address of  the  licensee,  of
  the  names  and  addresses of the members of the licensee under whom the
  games will be managed, of the place or places  where  and  the  date  or
  dates  and  time or times when such games are to be conducted and of the
  purposes to which the entire net  proceeds  of  such  games  are  to  be
  devoted;  the name of each single type of game to be conducted under the
  license and the number of merchandise wheels and raffles, if any, to  be
  operated;  and any other information which may be required by said rules
  and regulations to be contained therein, and each license issued for the
  conduct of any games shall be conspicuously displayed at the place where
  same is to be conducted at all times during the conduct thereof.
2. Each license to lease premises for conducting games of chance  will
  be  in  such form as shall be prescribed in the rules and regulations of
  the board and shall contain a statement of the name and address  of  the
  licensee  and  the  address  of  the  leased  premises,  the  amount  of
  permissible rent and any information which may be required by said rules
  and regulations to be contained therein, and each such license shall  be
  conspicuously  displayed  upon  such  premises  at  all times during the
  conduct of games of chance.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195 - Sunday; Conduct of Games On.

§  195. Sunday; conduct of games on. Except as provided in section one
  hundred ninety-five-b of this article,  no  games  of  chance  shall  be
  conducted  under  any license issued under this article on the first day
  of the week, commonly known and designated as Sunday, unless it shall be
  otherwise provided in the license issued  for  the  conducting  thereof,
  pursuant  to  the provisions of a local law or an ordinance duly adopted
  by the governing body of the municipality wherein the license is issued,
  authorizing the conduct of games of chance under this  article  on  that
  day  only  between  the  hours of noon and midnight. Notwithstanding the
  foregoing provisions of  this  section  no  games  of  chance  shall  be
  conducted on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-A - Participation by Persons Under Eighteen.

§  195-a. Participation by persons under eighteen. No person under the
  age of eighteen years shall be permitted to play any game  or  games  of
  chance  conducted  pursuant  to  any  license issued under this article.
  Persons under the age of eighteen years may be permitted to attend games
  of chance at the discretion of the games of chance licensee.  No  person
  under  the  age of eighteen years shall be permitted to operate any game
  of chance conducted pursuant to any license issued under this article or
  to assist therein.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-B - Frequency of Games.

§  195-b.  Frequency  of  games.  No game or games of chance, shall be
  conducted under any license issued under this article  more  often  than
  twelve  times in any calendar year. No particular premises shall be used
  for the conduct of games of chance  on  more  than  twenty-four  license
  periods  during  any  one  calendar  year. Games shall be conducted only
  between the hours of noon and midnight on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
  Thursday, and only between the hours of noon  on  Friday  and  two  A.M.
  Saturday,  and  only  between the hours of noon on Saturday and two A.M.
  Sunday. The two A.M. closing period shall also apply to a legal holiday.
  The above restrictions shall not apply when only  the  games  of  chance
  known as bell jar and/or raffle are conducted.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-C - Persons Operating Games; Equipment; Expenses; Compensation.

§   195-c.   1.   Persons   operating   games;   equipment;  expenses;
  compensation.  No person shall operate any  game  of  chance  under  any
  license  issued  under  this  article  except  a bona fide member of the
  authorized organization to which the license is issued, or a  bona  fide
  member  of  an  organization or association which is an auxiliary to the
  licensee or a bona fide member of  an  organization  or  association  of
  which  such  licensee  is  an  auxiliary  or  a  bona  fide member of an
  organization or association which is affiliated  with  the  licensee  by
  being,  with  it,  auxiliary  to  another  organization  or association.
  Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the number of games of chance
  licensees for whom such persons may  operate  games  of  chance  nor  to
  prevent  non-members  from  assisting the licensee in any activity other
  than managing or operating games. No game of chance shall  be  conducted
  with  any  equipment  except  such  as  shall  be owned or leased by the
  authorized organization so licensed  or  used  without  payment  of  any
  compensation  therefor  by the licensee. However, in no event shall bell
  jar tickets be transferred from one authorized organization to  another,
  with  or  without payment of any compensation thereof. The head or heads
  of the authorized organization shall upon request certify,  under  oath,
  that  the  persons operating any game of chance are bona fide members of
  such authorized organization, auxiliary or affiliated organization. Upon
  request by an officer or the department any such person involved in such
  games of chance shall certify that he or she has no criminal record.  No
  items  of  expense  shall  be  incurred  or  paid in connection with the
  conducting of any game of chance pursuant to any  license  issued  under
  this  article  except  those  that  are  reasonable  and are necessarily
  expended for games of chance supplies and  equipment,  prizes,  security
  personnel,  stated  rental  if  any,  bookkeeping or accounting services
  according to  a  schedule  of  compensation  prescribed  by  the  board,
  janitorial  services  and utility supplies if any, and license fees, and
  the  cost  of  bus  transportation,  if  authorized  by  such  clerk  or
  department.  No  commission,  salary, compensation, reward or recompense
  shall be paid or given to any person for the sale or assisting with  the
  sale of raffle tickets.
2.  For the purpose of the sale of tickets for the game of raffle, the
  term "operate" shall not include the sale of such tickets by persons  of
  lineal   or   collateral  consanguinity  to  members  of  an  authorized
  organization licensed to conduct a raffle.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-D - Charge for Admission and Participation; Amount of Prizes; Award of Prizes.

§  195-d.  Charge  for  admission and participation; amount of prizes;
  award of prizes. 1. A fee may be charged by any licensee  for  admission
  to  any game or games of chance conducted under any license issued under
  this article. The clerk or  department  may  in  its  discretion  fix  a
  minimum fee.
2.  With  the  exception  of  bell  jars,  coin  boards,  seal  cards,
  merchandise boards and raffles, every winner  shall  be  determined  and
  every  prize shall be awarded and delivered within the same calendar day
  as that upon which the game was played. No alcoholic beverage  shall  be
  offered or given as a prize in any game of chance.
3.  A  player  may  purchase  a chance with cash or, if the authorized
  organization wishes, with a personal check, credit card or debit card.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-E - Advertising Games.

§  195-e.  Advertising  games. A licensee may advertise the conduct of
  games of chance to the general public by means of  newspaper,  circular,
  handbill  and poster, and by one sign not exceeding sixty square feet in
  area, which may be displayed on or adjacent to  the  premises  owned  or
  occupied  by a licensed authorized organization, through the internet or
  television as may be regulated by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the
  commission.  When  an  organization is licensed or authorized to conduct
  games of chance on the premises of an authorized games of chance lessor,
  one additional such sign may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises
  in which the  games  are  to  be  conducted.  Additional  signs  may  be
  displayed  upon any firefighting or ambulance equipment belonging to any
  licensed authorized organization  that  is  a  volunteer  fire  company,
  volunteer ambulance corps or upon any equipment of a first aid or rescue
  squad  in  and  throughout  the  community served by such volunteer fire
  company, volunteer ambulance corps or such first aid or rescue squad, as
  the case may be. All advertisements shall be limited to the  description
  of such event as "Games of chance" or "Las Vegas Night", the name of the
  authorized organization conducting such games, the license number of the
  authorized  organization  as  assigned  by  the clerk or department, the
  prizes offered and the date, location and time of the event.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-G - Examination of Books and Records; Examination of Officers and Employees; Disclosure of Information.

§ 195-g. Examination of books and records; examination of officers and
  employees;  disclosure  of  information. The clerk or department and the
  board shall have power to examine or cause to be examined the books  and
  records of:
1.  Any  authorized  organization  which  is  or  has been licensed to
  conduct games of chance, so far as they may relate to  games  of  chance
  including  the  maintenance,  control  and  disposition  of net proceeds
  derived from games of chance or from the use of its premises  for  games
  of  chance, and to examine any manager, officer, director, agent, member
  or employee thereof under oath in relation to the conduct  of  any  such
  game  under  any  such  license,  the  use  of its premises for games of
  chance, or the disposition of net proceeds derived from games of chance,
  as the case may be.
2. Any authorized games of chance lessor so far as they may relate  to
  leasing  premises  for games of chance and to examine said lessor or any
  manager, officer, director, agent or  employee  thereof  under  oath  in
  relation to such leasing.
Any  information  so  received shall not be disclosed except so far as
  may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-H - Appeals From the Decision of an Officer, Clerk or Department to Board.

§  195-h. Appeals from the decision of an officer, clerk or department
  to board. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or  to  be
  issued  under  this article aggrieved by any action of an officer, clerk
  or department, to which such application has been made or by which  such
  license  has been issued, may appeal to the board from the determination
  of said officer, clerk, or  department  by  filing  with  such  officer,
  clerk, or department a written notice of appeal within thirty days after
  the  determination or action appealed from, and upon the hearing of such
  appeal, the evidence, if any,  taken  before  such  officer,  clerk,  or
  department  and  any  additional  evidence  may be produced and shall be
  considered in arriving at a determination of the matters in  issue,  and
  the  action  of  the  board  upon said appeal shall be binding upon such
  officer, clerk, or department and all parties to said appeal.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-I - Exemption From Prosecution.

§  195-i.  Exemption  from  prosecution. No person, firm, partnership,
  corporation or organization lawfully conducting, or participating in the
  conduct of games of chance or permitting the conduct upon  any  premises
  owned  or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant
  to this article, shall  be  liable  to  prosecution  or  conviction  for
  violation  of  any  provision  of article two hundred twenty-five of the
  penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent that such  conduct
  is  specifically authorized by this article, but this immunity shall not
  extend  to  any  person   or   corporation   knowingly   conducting   or
  participating  in  the  conduct  of  games  of  chance under any license
  obtained by any false pretense or by any false  statement  made  in  any
  application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any
  premises  owned  or  leased by him or it of any game of chance conducted
  under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by  any  such
  false pretense or statement.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-J - Offenses; Forfeiture of License; Ineligibility to Apply for License.

§  195-j.  Offenses; forfeiture of license; ineligibility to apply for
license.  Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or organization who
or which shall:
(1) make any material false  statement  in  any  application  for  any
license authorized to be issued under this article;
(2)  pay  or receive, for the use of any premises for conducting games
of chance, a rental in excess of the amount specified as the permissible
rent in the license provided for  in  subdivision  two  of  section  one
hundred ninety-three of this article;
(3)  fail  to  keep  such  books  and records as shall fully and truly
record all transactions connected with the conducting of games of chance
or the leasing of premises to be  used  for  the  conduct  of  games  of
chance;
(4)  falsify or make any false entry in any books or records so far as
they relate in any manner to the conduct of  games  of  chance,  to  the
disposition  of the proceeds thereof and to the application of the rents
received by any authorized organization;
(5) divert or pay any portion of the  net  proceeds  of  any  game  of
chance   to  any  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation,  except  in
furtherance of one or more  of  the  lawful  purposes  defined  in  this
article;
shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit any license issued
under this article and be ineligible to apply for a license  under  this
article for at least one year thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-K - Unlawful Games of Chance.

§  195-k.  Unlawful  games  of  chance.  1.  Any  person, association,
corporation or organization holding, operating, or conducting a game  or
games  of  chance  is  guilty  of  a misdemeanor, except when operating,
holding or conducting:
(a) In accordance  with  a  valid  license  issued  pursuant  to  this
article;
(b)  On  behalf  of a bona fide organization of persons sixty years of
age or over, commonly referred to as senior  citizens,  solely  for  the
purpose  of  amusement  and  recreation  of  its  members  where (i) the
organization has applied for and received an identification number  from
the  board,  (ii)  no player or other person furnishes anything of value
for the opportunity to participate, (iii) the prizes awarded  or  to  be
awarded are nominal, (iv) no person other than a bona fide active member
of the organization participates in the conduct of the games, and (v) no
person is paid for conducting or assisting in the conduct of the game or
games; or
(c) A raffle pursuant to section one hundred ninety-a of this article.
2.  The  provisions  of this section shall apply to all municipalities
within this state, including those municipalities where this article  is
inoperative.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-L - Article Inoperative Until Adopted by Voters.

§  195-l.  Article  inoperative  until  adopted  by  voters. Except as
  provided in section one  hundred  ninety-five-k  of  this  article,  the
  provisions  of this article shall remain inoperative in any municipality
  unless and until a  proposition  therefor  submitted  at  a  general  or
  special election in such municipality shall be approved by a vote of the
  majority of the qualified electors in such municipality voting thereon.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-M - Amendment and Repeal of Local Laws and Ordinances.

§  195-m.  Amendment and repeal of local laws and ordinances. Any such
  local law or ordinance may be amended, from time to time, or repealed by
  the common council or other local legislative body of  the  municipality
  which  enacted it by a two-thirds vote of such legislative body and such
  amendment or repeal, as the case may  be,  may  be  made  effective  and
  operative  not  earlier than thirty days following the date of enactment
  of the local law or ordinance effecting such amendment or repeal, as the
  case may be; and the approval of a majority  of  the  electors  of  such
  municipality  shall not be a condition prerequisite to the taking effect
  of such local law or ordinance.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-P - Transfer Restrictions.

§   195-p.    Transfer  restrictions.  Not-for-profit,  charitable  or
  religious  organizations  authorized  to  sell  bell  jar   tickets   in
  accordance  with  this article shall purchase bell jar tickets only from
  distributors licensed by the board.  No not-for-profit,  charitable,  or
  religious  organization  shall  sell, donate, or otherwise transfer bell
  jar  tickets  to  any  other  not-for-profit,  charitable  or  religious
  organization.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 195-R - Severability.

§  195-r.    Severability.    If  any provision of this article or the
  application thereof to any municipality, person or  circumstances  shall
  be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the
  remainder   of   this  article  or  the  application  thereof  to  other
  municipalities, persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby,
  and the legislature hereby declares that  it  would  have  enacted  this
  article  without  the  invalid provision or application, as the case may
  be, had such invalidity been apparent.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 200-A - Volunteer Firefighters Serving in More Than One Fire Company or Fire Department.

§  200-a. Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company
  or  fire  department.  When  any  person  has  served  as  a   volunteer
  firefighter as provided in section two hundred of this article, for less
  than five years, and while in good standing in the company or department
  of  which  he  or  she  was a member, has resigned therefrom or has been
  transferred from one company to another, he or she shall be entitled  to
  a certificate as provided in section two hundred two of this article for
  the  time  he or she has actually served. And when any person has served
  five years as a volunteer  firefighter  in  one  or  more  companies  or
  departments,  as  provided in section two hundred of this article, he or
  she shall be deemed an exempt volunteer firefighter and entitled to  all
  the rights and privileges of an exempt volunteer firefighter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 200-AA - Training Stipend for Volunteer Firefighters.

§ 200-aa. Training stipend for volunteer firefighters. 1. For purposes
of this section:
(a)  "fire  company" shall have the same meaning as defined in section
three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law.
(b) "training stipend" means payment of a nominal fee to  a  volunteer
firefighter  of  a  stipend  for  the  completion of certain firefighter
training, as identified and published by the office of  fire  prevention
and control.
(c)  "volunteer firefighter" shall have the same meaning as defined in
section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law.
2. The governing board of a city, town, village or fire district  may,
by  local  law,  ordinance  or  resolution,  authorize a fire company to
provide training stipends to volunteer firefighters.
3. The office of fire prevention and control may make available  state
funds   through   a  training  stipend  to  volunteer  firefighters  for
completion of certain firefighter training, as identified and  published
by the office of fire prevention and control.
4. No volunteer firefighter may receive a training stipend from both a
volunteer  fire  company pursuant to subdivision two of this section and
the office of fire prevention and control pursuant to subdivision  three
of this section for completion of the same firefighter training.
5.  Any  training  stipend  provided  under  this section shall not be
deemed  remuneration  or  gratuity  under  the  volunteer  firefighters'
benefit  law  or any other provision of law and shall not interfere with
or impact the volunteer  status  of  volunteer  firefighters  under  the
volunteer firefighters' benefit law or any other provision of law.
6.  The  office  of fire prevention and control shall promulgate rules
and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 201 - Rights and Privileges of Exempt Volunteer Firefighters.

§ 201. Rights and privileges of exempt volunteer firefighters. In case
  any  city,  town  or  village  in  this state shall organize a paid fire
  department  and  thereby  deprive  any  volunteer  firefighter  who  has
  faithfully  actually  performed  service  in  the protection of life and
  property within the territory protected by his or  her  company  of  the
  right  to  serve  a  full  term  of five years such firefighter shall be
  entitled to a full and honorable discharge; and to all  the  rights  and
  privileges  granted  by the laws of this state to volunteer firefighter,
  provided, however, that if such paid department has been organized since
  the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and two, he or she
  shall have so served for a consecutive  period  of  at  least  one  year
  immediately preceding the installation of said paid fire department.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 202 - Certificate to Be Issued to Exempt Volunteer Firefighter.

§  202.  Certificate to be issued to exempt volunteer firefighter. Any
  person described in sections two hundred or  two  hundred  one  of  this
  article  shall be entitled to a certificate from the company in which he
  or she served or of which he or she was a member  at  the  time  of  its
  disbandment   which  shall  show  the  date  of  the  entrance  of  such
  firefighter upon his or her service, the period of his or  her  service;
  if  he or she was honorably discharged from such company the certificate
  shall so state; that he or she was  in  good  standing  in  his  or  her
  company  at  the time of applying for such certificate or at the time he
  or she was discharged therefrom; or that he or she was in good  standing
  in  his  or  her  company  at  the time of the disbandment thereof. Such
  certificate shall be  signed  by  the  president,  captain,  foreman  or
  secretary  of  the  company  and  shall be acknowledged by such officers
  before an officer commissioned to take acknowledgments, and  shall  also
  have  attached  thereto  a  certificate attested by the affidavit of the
  secretary, clerk or other person having the  custody  of  the  company's
  record  of  membership,  that  the  statements of fact contained in said
  certificate are true, and the  affidavit  and  acknowledgment  shall  be
  substantially in the following form:
 
  State of New York         )
) ss.
  County of ............    )
On  this  ............  day of ........... , in the year ........... ,
  before me personally came ......................... , to me known and by
  me known to be the same  persons  described  in  and  who  executed  the
  foregoing  certificate  and  they severally duly acknowledged to me that
  they executed the same and the said .............................. being
  by me duly sworn, deposes and says, that he/she is .................  of
  the  company  aforesaid  and  is  the  custodian  of  the records of its
  membership and that the facts above stated relating to  the  service  of
  the person described in such certificate are true.
...................................
Notary Public
Such  certificate  so attested shall in all courts of the state and in
  the offices of all persons clothed with power of appointment or  removal
  in  the service of this state and in the several cities, counties, towns
  and villages thereof, be  presumptive  evidence  of  the  facts  therein
  stated.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 202-A - Recording Certificates of Exempt Volunteer Firefighter.

§  202-a.  Recording  certificates  of exempt volunteer firefighter. A
  certificate of honorable discharge of an exempt  volunteer  firefighter,
  or  a  certificate  issued  to an exempt volunteer firefighter under the
  provisions of section two hundred two of this article, may  be  recorded
  in  any  county, in the office of the county clerk, and when so recorded
  shall constitute notice to all public officials of the facts  set  forth
  therein.  It  shall  be  the duty of the county clerk to record any such
  certificate, upon presentation thereof without the payment of  any  fee.
  This  section  also applies to the counties within the city of New York.
  For any purpose for which such  original  honorable  discharge  or  such
  exempt  volunteer firefighter's certificate may be required in the state
  of New York, a certified copy of such record shall be deemed  sufficient
  and  shall  be  accepted  in  lieu  thereof. It shall be the duty of the
  county clerks of the counties within the  city  of  New  York  upon  the
  payment of one dollar, to furnish a certified copy of any such record of
  such  an  exempt  volunteer  firefighter's  certificate  to  any  person
  applying for the same.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 203 - List of Exempt Volunteer Firefighters to Be Filed.

§ 203. List of exempt volunteer firefighters to be filed. In case of a
  company  disbanded  by  the  organization  of  a paid department in lieu
  thereof, the officers of every volunteer fire, engine, hose and hook and
  ladder company shall within ninety days  after  such  company  has  been
  disbanded  file  in  the office of the clerk of the county in which said
  company was located a list containing the name of every person who was a
  member of such volunteer company and who is entitled  to  the  exemption
  certificate in accordance with the provisions of this article. Upon such
  list  being  filed  the county clerk of the county in which such company
  operated shall sign and deliver the exemption certificate  provided  for
  in  this  article to the person entitled thereto whose name appears upon
  the list filed with him as aforesaid, but the same shall,  nevertheless,
  be attested by the secretary or clerk or other person having the custody
  of  the  membership  records  of the disbanded company and in the manner
  specified in this article.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204 - Qualifications Necessary to Entitle to Certain Exemptions.

§  204.  Qualifications necessary to entitle to certain exemptions. No
  person who became a member of a volunteer fire organization  within  the
  state  since  the  first day of January nineteen hundred and two, or who
  shall have thereafter become such  member  who  shall  not  possess  the
  qualifications  prescribed  by  this article shall be entitled to any of
  the exemptions and privileges secured to volunteer firefighters  by  the
  civil service law of this state.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-C - Plan for Arson Investigation.

§  204-c.  Plan  for  arson  investigation. The governing body of each
  county except a county contained wholly within a city, and the governing
  body of any city in which a county is wholly contained shall  develop  a
  plan for arson investigation within such county or city. Such plan shall
  be  submitted to the office of fire prevention and control for approval.
  No plan shall be approved unless it provides  for  the  coordination  of
  fire, law enforcement and prosecutorial services.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-D - Duties of the Fire Chief.

§  204-d.  Duties  of  the  fire  chief.  The  fire  chief of any fire
  department or company shall, in addition to any other duties assigned to
  him by law or contract, to the extent reasonably possible  determine  or
  cause  to  be  determined  the cause of each fire or explosion which the
  fire department or company has been called to suppress.  He  shall  file
  with  the office of fire prevention and control a report containing such
  determination and any additional information  required  by  such  office
  regarding  the  fire  or  explosion.  The  report  shall  be in the form
  designated by such office. He shall contact or cause to be contacted the
  appropriate investigatory authority if he has reason to believe the fire
  or explosion is of incendiary or suspicious origin. For all  fires  that
  are  suspected to have been ignited by a cigarette, within fourteen days
  after completing the investigation into such fire, the fire chief  shall
  forward  to  the  office  of  fire  prevention  and  control information
  detailing, to the extent possible: (a) the specific brand and  style  of
  the  cigarette  suspected  of  having ignited such fire; (b) whether the
  cigarette package was marked as required by subdivision six  of  section
  one  hundred  fifty-six-c of the executive law; and (c) the location and
  manner in which such cigarette was purchased.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-DD - Qualifications of a Fire Chief.

§  204-dd. Qualifications of a fire chief. No person shall be eligible
  for appointment or election as the fire chief, or any title or rank that
  includes the duties of the chief, in any fire department or fire company
  with six or more paid firefighters, unless he or she meets  requirements
  as established by the most recently developed recommended best practices
  for  incident  commanders  adopted  by  the  New  York state division of
  homeland security and emergency services, office of fire prevention  and
  control.  The  state  fire  administrator  shall  promulgate  rules  and
  regulations based upon requirements established  pursuant  to  the  most
  recently  developed  recommended best practices for incident commanders.
  For the purpose of this section,  the  term  firefighter  shall  mean  a
  member of a fire department whose duties include fire service as defined
  in paragraph d of subdivision eleven of section three hundred two of the
  retirement  and  social security law and has been assigned by his or her
  department as an interior firefighter.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-E - Unauthorized Destruction of Property.

§  204-e.  Unauthorized  destruction  of  property.  No  individual or
  corporation having a possessory or proprietary interest in a building or
  motor vehicle within the meaning of section  150.05  of  the  penal  law
  shall  ignite  a  fire  or  cause an explosion in such building or motor
  vehicle without the prior written permission of the chief of  the  local
  department  or fire company with the responsibility to respond to a fire
  call, or the chief's designee.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-F - Plan for Hazardous Materials Incidents Response.

§   204-f.   Plan  for  hazardous  materials  incidents  response.  In
  accordance  with  rules  and   regulations   promulgated   pursuant   to
  subdivision  eight  of  section  two hundred nine-e of this chapter, the
  governing body of a county, except a county wholly  contained  within  a
  city,  and  the  governing  body  of  a city in which a county is wholly
  contained shall develop a plan for fire service  response  to  hazardous
  materials  incidents. Such plan shall be submitted to the office of fire
  prevention and control for approval. No plan shall be approved unless it
  provides for the coordination of fire service resources consistent  with
  guidelines established by the office.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 204-G - Restrictions on the Use of Firefighting Foam Containing Pfas Chemicals.

§  204-g. Restrictions on the use of firefighting foam containing PFAS
chemicals. 1. As used in this section:
(a) "Class B firefighting foam" means  foams  designed  to  extinguish
ignitable liquid fires.
(b)  "Ignitable liquid fire" shall have the same meaning as defined in
paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section three  hundred  ninety-one-u
of the general business law.
(c) "Local governments" includes any county, city, town, village, fire
district,  fire company as defined in section two hundred four-a of this
article, regional fire protection authority, or  other  special  purpose
district that provides firefighting services.
(d)   "Perfluoroalkyl   and   polyfluoroalkyl   substances"  or  "PFAS
chemicals" shall have the same meaning as defined in  paragraph  (f)  of
subdivision  one  of  section  three hundred ninety-one-u of the general
business law.
2. No local government shall discharge or otherwise use  for  training
purposes  class  B  firefighting  foam that contains intentionally added
perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS chemicals).
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 205-B - Relief of Volunteer Firefighters Engaged in the Performance of Duty as Such Firefighters From Civil Liability and Liability of Fire Districts for The

§  205-b.  Relief of volunteer firefighters engaged in the performance
  of duty as such firefighters from civil liability and liability of  fire
  districts  for  the  acts  of  volunteer  firefighters.  Members of duly
  organized volunteer fire companies in this state  shall  not  be  liable
  civilly  for  any  act  or acts done by them in the performance of their
  duty  as  volunteer  firefighters,  except  for  wilful  negligence   or
  malfeasance.  Nothing  in  this  section  contained  shall in any manner
  affect the liability imposed upon cities, towns and villages by sections
  fifty-a and fifty-b of this chapter, but fire districts created pursuant
  to law shall be liable for the negligence of volunteer firefighters duly
  appointed to serve therein in the operation of  vehicles  owned  by  the
  fire district upon the public streets and highways of the fire district,
  provided  such  volunteer  firefighters,  at the time of any accident or
  injury,  were  acting  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties.  Judgments
  recovered  against  a  fire  district  pursuant to this section shall be
  levied upon the taxable property of such district in the same manner  as
  moneys raised for the support of the district.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 205-C - Payments Pending Controversies Where Volunteer Firefighters Are Killed or Injured.

§  205-c.  Payments pending controversies where volunteer firefighters
  are killed or injured. In order to provide for  the  prompt  payment  of
  benefits  under sections two hundred five and two hundred nine-a of this
  article, and under the workers' compensation law,  where  such  benefits
  are conceded to be due to any person because of the death of or injuries
  to  a  volunteer  firefighter  but  controversy exists as to which city,
  village, town or fire district is liable for the  payment  thereof,  the
  municipalities  and  districts  involved  in  such controversy and their
  insurance carriers, if any, may agree that  any  one  or  more  of  such
  municipalities  or  districts  or  its  insurance  carrier shall pay the
  benefits to, or in relation to, the person conceded to  be  entitled  to
  such   benefits  without  waiting  for  a  final  determination  of  the
  controversy, and may carry out the  provisions  of  such  an  agreement.
  Notwithstanding  any such payment, any party to the agreement may seek a
  final determination of the controversy in the same  manner  as  if  such
  payment  had  not  been made. After a final determination the parties to
  the agreement shall make  any  necessary  and  proper  reimbursement  to
  conform  to  the  determination.  The  term  "insurance carrier" as used
  herein  shall  mean  an  insurance   company,   or   a   county   mutual
  self-insurance  plan  in  accordance with subdivision three-a of section
  fifty of the workers' compensation law,  or  any  plan  which  shall  be
  provided for by law in amendment of or substitution for such a plan.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 205-D - Relief From Civil Liability for Acts or Omissions by Fire Wardens in the City of New York.

§  205-d.  Relief  from  civil liability for acts or omissions by fire
  wardens in the city of New York. After being trained by a certified fire
  safety director, any person designated to serve  as  a  fire  warden  or
  deputy  fire warden in any structure classified as an office building by
  law or otherwise in the city of New York shall not be liable for damages
  for injuries, death or property  damage  alleged  to  have  occurred  by
  reason of an act or omission in the performance of any duty contained in
  a fire safety plan unless it is established that such injuries, death or
  property  damage was caused by gross negligence on the part of such fire
  warden or deputy fire warden.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 205-F - Removal of Civil Liability Barriers.

§  205-f.  Removal  of  civil  liability  barriers.  1.  (a) Liability
protection. (1) A fire company or political subdivision  as  defined  in
section  three  of  the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, including a
person acting as an agent thereof,  that  acts  reasonably  in  donating
qualified  fire  control  or  fire  rescue equipment to a volunteer fire
company shall not be liable in civil damages under  any  state  law  for
personal  injuries,  property  damage, or death proximately caused after
the donation by a defect in the equipment.
(2) Any state or local agency, including a person acting as  an  agent
of   such   an   agency,  that  acts  reasonably  in  administering  the
distribution of qualified fire control or fire  rescue  equipment  to  a
volunteer  fire  company  or political subdivision as defined in section
three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, shall  not  be  liable
for  civil  damages  under any state law for personal injuries, property
damage, or death proximately caused after the distribution by  a  defect
in the equipment.
(b)   Exceptions  to  liability  protection.  Paragraph  (a)  of  this
subdivision shall not apply to a person or agency if:
(1) the defect that proximately causes the  injury,  damage,  or  loss
resulted  from  an  act  or  omission  of  the  person  or  agency, that
constitutes  malice,  gross  negligence,  recklessness,  or  intentional
misconduct;
(2)  the  person  or  agency is the manufacturer of the qualified fire
control or fire rescue equipment; or
(3) the person or agency modified or altered the  equipment  after  it
had  been  recertified  by  an  authorized  technician  as  meeting  the
manufacturer's specifications.
2. For the purposes of this section the following  words  and  phrases
shall have the following meanings:
(a)  "Person"  means  any  individual  and  any  governmental or other
entity.
(b) "Qualified fire control or rescue equipment" means fire control or
fire rescue  equipment  that  has  been  recertified  by  an  authorized
technician  as  meeting  the  manufacturer's specifications and has been
distributed through a state  or  local  agency  to  the  volunteer  fire
company.
(c) "Authorized technician" means a technician that has been certified
by  the manufacturer of fire control or fire rescue equipment to inspect
such equipment. The technician need not be  employed  by  the  state  or
local  agency administering the distribution of the fire control or fire
rescue equipment.