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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-AA*2 - Appointment of Private College Campus Security Officers at Independent Non-Profit Colleges.

* § 209-aa. Appointment of private college campus security officers at
  independent  non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision
  of law to the contrary, the chief law enforcement officer  charged  with
  oversight  of  law  enforcement throughout a city having a population of
  less than one million may appoint as  private  college  campus  security
  officers  security  guards employed by an independent non-profit college
  upon the request of such independent non-profit  college  in  accordance
  with  the  provisions  of  section sixty-four hundred thirty-five of the
  education law. The chief law enforcement officer may appoint such campus
  security officers pursuant to this  section  only  if  more  than  fifty
  percent  of  the  total  acreage  of real property owned by or under the
  control of such independent non-profit college is  located  within  such
  city  and  the  city  council,  pursuant to local law or resolution duly
  adopted, has authorized such  chief  law  enforcement  officer  to  make
  appointments   pursuant  to  this  section.  Any  such  security  guards
  appointed  as  campus  security  officers  shall  be  employees  of  the
  independent non-profit college requesting such appointment and shall not
  be officers, agents, servants or employees of such chief law enforcement
  officer  or  his city of jurisdiction nor be considered public officers,
  agents, servants or employees. Such campus security officers shall  only
  have  the  powers set forth in section sixty-four hundred thirty-five of
  the education law.
2. The chief law enforcement  officer  may  condition  appointment  as
  private  college campus security officers upon compliance by such campus
  security officers with written procedures established by such chief  law
  enforcement officer in order to ensure a coordinated and cooperative law
  enforcement  effort  and  the  payment  of  an administrative fee not to
  exceed fifty dollars per year per campus security officer and may revoke
  such appointments at any  time  for  material  non-compliance  with  the
  requirements  of  such  written procedures or section sixty-four hundred
  thirty-five of the education law or for  any  other  reason  that  shall
  disqualify  a  security  guard  from  being  a  campus  security officer
  pursuant to the provisions of such section.
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2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-C - Fire Police Squads of Fire Departments and Fire Companies.

§  209-c.  Fire  police squads of fire departments and fire companies.
  The authorities having control of fire departments  and  fire  companies
  may  organize  within  such  departments or companies fire police squads
  composed of volunteer firefighters who are members of  such  departments
  or companies. Members of fire police squads, so organized, at such times
  as  the  fire  department, fire company or an emergency rescue and first
  aid squad of the fire department or fire company are on duty,  or  when,
  on  orders  of the chief of the fire department or fire company of which
  they are members, they are separately engaged in response to a call  for
  assistance  pursuant  to  the  provisions of section two hundred nine of
  this article, shall have the powers  of  and  render  service  as  peace
  officers.  A  member of a fire police squad shall take an oath of office
  as a fire police officer in the following form: "I do solemnly swear (or
  affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United  States,  and
  the  constitution  of  the State of New York, and that I will faithfully
  discharge the duties of  the  office  of  fire  police  officer  of  the
  ......................  fire  company (or fire department), according to
  the best of my ability." Such oath shall be filed in the office  of  the
  city  clerk  in  the  case  of  a  firefighter of a fire company or fire
  department in a city, in the office of the village clerk in the case  of
  a  firefighter of a fire company or fire department in a village, and in
  the office of the town clerk in all  other  cases.  Notwithstanding  any
  other  provision of law to the contrary, a member of a fire police squad
  shall have satisfied any requirement for training  as  provided  by  any
  general  or  local  law  if  the  person  has satisfactorily completed a
  training course offered by the  state  office  of  fire  prevention  and
  control, or an equivalent course as approved by the state office of fire
  prevention and control.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-D - Contracts for Outside Service by Volunteer Fire Departments and Companies.

§  209-d.  Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments
  and companies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  no  contract
  shall be made by a municipality or fire district whereby the services of
  a  volunteer  fire  department  or company are to be supplied outside of
  such municipality or fire district to provide (1) fire  protection,  (2)
  emergency service in case of accidents, calamities or other emergencies,
  or  (3)  general ambulance service pursuant to the provisions of section
  two  hundred  nine-b  of  this  article,  unless  such  volunteer   fire
  department  or  company  consents thereto. Any such contract may provide
  for the payment of a portion of the consideration expressed  therein  to
  such  volunteer  fire  department  or  company  to  be expended for fire
  department or  company  purposes  only.  If  the  municipality  or  fire
  district  owns  all of the fire apparatus to be used in carrying out the
  contract, the portion of the consideration which may  be  paid  to  such
  volunteer  fire  department  or company shall not exceed thirty-five per
  centum, unless a greater portion was being so paid on  March  fifteenth,
  nineteen  hundred  forty-one, under a contract entered into on or before
  that date, in which event a not greater portion than was being  paid  on
  said  date  may  be paid to such volunteer fire department or company in
  respect to any contract entered into on or after such date. No  payments
  shall  be  made to individual volunteer firefighters as compensation for
  rendering such outside service.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-DD - Discovery of Unlawful Drug Laboratory.

§  209-dd.  Discovery  of  unlawful  drug  laboratory.  All  emergency
  services personnel, as defined in section two hundred  nine-cc  of  this
  article,  shall be provided with information on recognizing the signs of
  an unlawful methamphetamine laboratory. Pursuant to section 19.27 of the
  mental hygiene  law,  the  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse
  services  shall  make  such  information  on  recognizing  the  signs of
  unlawful  methamphetamine  laboratories  available  to  such  personnel.
  Emergency  services  personnel  shall notify or cause to be notified the
  division of state police regarding the location  of  any  such  unlawful
  methamphetamine laboratory.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-EE - Adoption of a Code of Ethics and Disclosure of Interests by Fire Companies.

§  209-ee. Adoption of a code of ethics and disclosure of interests by
fire companies. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of general, special  or
local  law to the contrary, every fire company that contracts with or is
under the control of a county, city, town, village or fire  district  to
provide  fire  protection or other emergency service, shall adopt a code
of ethics. Such code shall set forth the standards of conduct reasonably
expected.
2. Any elected and/or appointed officer of a  volunteer  fire  company
responsible for governance, including but not limited to a line officer,
treasurer,  president, vice president and secretary, who has, will have,
or later acquires an interest in or whose  spouse  has,  will  have,  or
later  acquires an interest in any actual or proposed contract, purchase
agreement,  lease  agreement  or   other   agreement,   including   oral
agreements,  with the fire company of which he or she is a member, shall
publicly disclose the nature and extent of such interest in  writing  to
his  or  her  immediate  supervisor and to the governing body thereof as
soon as he or she has knowledge of such actual or prospective  interest.
Such  written  disclosure  shall  be  made  part of and set forth in the
official record of the proceedings of such body.
3. a. For the purpose of this section the term fire company shall have
the  same  meaning  as  defined  in  section  three  of  the   volunteer
firefighters' benefit law.
b.  For  the  purpose  of  this section the term interest shall mean a
direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing to an  elected
and/or  appointed  officer  of  a  volunteer  company as the result of a
contract with the fire entity which he or she serves. For  the  purposes
of  this  article  an  elected  and/or  appointed officer of a volunteer
company shall be deemed to have an interest in the contract of  (i)  his
or  her  spouse, minor children and dependents, (ii) a firm, partnership
or association of which such individual is a member or employee, (iii) a
corporation of which such individual is an officer, director or employee
and (iv) a corporation  any  stock  of  which  is  owned  or  controlled
directly or indirectly by such individual.
c. The disclosure requirement of subdivision two of this section shall
not apply to the following:
(i)  a  contract  with  a  corporation  in  which an individual has an
interest by reason of stockholdings when less than five  per  centum  of
the outstanding stock of the corporation is owned or controlled directly
or indirectly by such individual; or
(ii)  a  contract  in which an individual has an interest if the total
consideration payable thereunder, when added to the aggregate amount  of
all  consideration  payable  under contracts in which such person had an
interest during the fiscal year,  does  not  exceed  the  sum  of  seven
hundred fifty dollars.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-FF - Provisions Relating to Certain Accidental Disability Benefits.

§   209-ff.  Provisions  relating  to  certain  accidental  disability
  benefits.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions a and b  of
  section  five hundred seven of the retirement and social security law, a
  police/fire  member  in  active  service,  a  New  York  city  uniformed
  correction/sanitation  revised  plan  member  in  active  service  or an
  investigator revised plan member in active service shall be eligible for
  the accidental disability benefit provided in such section five  hundred
  seven,  regardless of whether he or she is eligible for a normal service
  retirement  benefit.  For  the  purposes  of  this  section,  the  terms
  "police/fire  member"  and "active service" shall have the same meanings
  as defined in section five hundred one  of  the  retirement  and  social
  security law.
2. Notwithstanding the provision of any general, special or local law,
  charter or administrative code to the contrary, subdivision d of section
  five  hundred  seven of the retirement and social security law shall not
  apply to retired police/fire members, retired New  York  city  uniformed
  correction/sanitation  revised  plan  members  and  retired investigator
  revised  plan  members  who  receive  accidental  disability  retirement
  allowances.  Such  retirees  shall be subject to post retirement medical
  examinations,  and  where   applicable,   modification   of   retirement
  allowance, following such examinations, in the same manner and under the
  same  conditions  prescribed  by  law  immediately prior to the first of
  April,  two  thousand  twelve  for  retired  New  York  city   uniformed
  correction/sanitation  revised  plan  members, and prior to the first of
  July, two thousand nine for  retired  police/fire  members  and  retired
  investigator revised plan members.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-FFF - Provisions Relating to a Membership Date in the New York City Police Pension Fund Attributable to Service in the Titles of Police Cadet Program and Police Cadet Program Ii in the New York City Police Department Cadet Program.

§  209-fff.  Provisions  relating to a membership date in the New York
  city police pension fund attributable to service in the titles of police
  cadet program and police cadet program II in the New  York  city  police
  department cadet program. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
  contrary,  upon election, any member of the New York city police pension
  fund who is subject to article fourteen of  the  retirement  and  social
  security  law,  and  who  served  in the New York city police department
  cadet program in the title of  police  cadet  program  or  police  cadet
  program  II  prior to April first, two thousand twelve, but did not join
  the New York city employees' retirement system while serving  in  either
  such title, may purchase credit for the period of service in such titles
  in  the New York city police department cadet program by paying into the
  New  York  city  police  pension  fund  all  member  contributions  plus
  interest,  at  a  rate  of five percent per annum, which would have been
  payable to the New York city  employees'  retirement  system  under  any
  provision  of  law  had  such member joined the New York city employees'
  retirement system on the earliest date that he or she was  appointed  to
  the  title of police cadet program or police cadet program II in the New
  York city police department cadet program, provided such payment is made
  within five years after the effective date of this section.
2. Any member of the New York city police pension  fund  who  acquires
  service credit pursuant to this section shall be entitled to all rights,
  benefits  and privileges to which he or she would have been entitled had
  his or her membership in the New York city  police  pension  fund  begun
  upon  the  earliest  date  that  he or she was appointed to the title of
  police cadet program or police cadet program II in  the  New  York  city
  police  department  cadet  program,  but  in  no event shall the service
  credit acquired pursuant to this section be deemed to be service in  the
  police  force  or  any  other  type  of service counted or creditable as
  service in the police force under section 13-218 of  the  administrative
  code  of  the  city  of  New  York, section five hundred thirteen of the
  retirement and social security law or any other  provision  of  law  for
  purposes  of  eligibility  for  benefits  and to determine the amount of
  benefits under the New York city police pension fund.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-GG - Symbols of Hate.

§ 209-gg. Symbols of hate. 1. A fire district, volunteer fire company,
  or  police  department  shall not sell or display any symbols of hate or
  any similar image, or tangible personal property, inscribed with such an
  image unless the image appears in a book,  digital  medium,  museum,  or
  otherwise serves an educational or historical purpose.
2.  For the purposes of this section, the term "symbols of hate" shall
  include, but not be limited to, symbols  of  white  supremacy,  neo-Nazi
  ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-J - Mutual Aid Programs in Counties.

§  209-j. Mutual aid programs in counties. The board of supervisors in
  any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem necessary
  and proper for the establishment and maintenance of a county mutual  aid
  plan  in  cases  of  fire and other emergencies in which the services of
  firefighters would be used and may prescribe the method of  auditing  or
  approving  expenditures  under any such appropriation. Expenses incurred
  by any city, town, village or fire district participating in such mutual
  aid plan shall be a lawful municipal or fire district charge to be  paid
  in the same manner as other like charges.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-L - Removal of Volunteer Officers and Volunteer Members of Fire Departments.

§  209-l.  Removal of volunteer officers and volunteer members of fire
  departments. 1. The authorities having control of  fire  departments  of
  cities,   towns,  villages  and  fire  districts  may  make  regulations
  governing the removal of volunteer officers  and  volunteer  members  of
  such departments and the companies thereof.
2.  Such  officers and members of such departments and companies shall
  not be removed from office, or membership, as the case may be,  by  such
  authorities  or by any other officer or body, except for incompetence or
  misconduct.
3. Removals on the ground of incompetence or  misconduct,  except  for
  absenteeism  at  fires  or  meetings, shall be made only after a hearing
  upon due notice and upon stated charges  and  with  the  right  to  such
  officer  or  member to a review pursuant to article seventy-eight of the
  civil practice law and rules. Such charges shall be in writing  and  may
  be  made  by  any  such authority. The burden of proving incompetency or
  misconduct shall be upon the person alleging the same.
4. a. Hearings upon such charges shall be held by the officer or  body
  having  the  power  to  remove  the  person charged with incompetency or
  misconduct or  by  a  deputy  or  employee  of  such  officer,  or  body
  designated  in  writing  for  that  purpose. In a case where a deputy or
  other employee is so designated, he or she shall,  for  the  purpose  of
  such hearing, be vested with all the powers of such officer or body, and
  shall  make  a  record  of such hearing, which shall be referred to such
  officer or body for review within ninety days from  the  close  of  such
  hearing along with his or her recommendations.
b. The notice of such hearing shall specify the time and place of such
  hearing  and  state  the  body or person before whom the hearing will be
  held.
c. Such notice and a copy of such charges shall be  served  personally
  upon  the  accused officer or member at least ten days but not more than
  thirty days before the date of the hearing.
d. A stenographer may be employed for the purpose of taking  testimony
  at the hearing.
5.  The  officer or body having the power to remove the person charged
  with incompetence or misconduct may suspend such  person  after  charges
  are  filed and pending disposition of the charges, and after the hearing
  may remove such person or may suspend him or her for a  period  of  time
  not to exceed one year.
The  provisions  of this section shall not affect the right of members
  of any fire company to remove a volunteer officer or voluntary member of
  such company for failure to comply with the constitution and by-laws  of
  such company.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-P - Relay of Fire and Emergency Calls.

§ 209-p. Relay of fire and emergency calls. The fire department of any
  city  may accept any calls for aid in cases of fire or other emergencies
  made to its fire headquarters from territory outside the  city  and  may
  relay  such calls for aid in fires or other emergencies by such means as
  may be expedient to the fire department, fire company or  fire  district
  serving  said  territory.  This  section  shall  apply  only  to  cities
  participating  in  any  legally  authorized  or  recognized   plan   for
  furnishing  mutual  aid  in cases of fire and other emergencies in which
  the services of firefighters would be used. Any city,  village  or  fire
  district,  any  town which has a town fire department, or any town board
  on behalf  of  a  fire  protection  district,  fire  alarm  district  or
  territory  outside any such municipal corporation or district, for which
  aid is to be furnished, may contract with a city  to  accept  and  relay
  such  calls,  as  aforesaid,  and  the  amounts  payable  under any such
  contract shall be a lawful charge against and paid as contracted for  by
  the city, village, fire district, town which has a town fire department,
  fire  protection  district, fire alarm district or territory outside any
  such  municipal  corporation  or  district.  Any  city   accepting   and
  transmitting fire calls from territory outside the city, pursuant to any
  such contract, shall not be liable for any injury or death to persons or
  damage  to  property  as  the  result  thereof,  when it, in good faith,
  complies with or attempts to comply with the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-R - Police Protection.

§  209-r. Police protection.  Notwithstanding any local or special law
  or charter provision, a city, town or village shall, irrespective of the
  boundaries of a privately owned housing  development,  provide  for  any
  streets  and pathways open to the public within such development, police
  protection services of the same character and  to  the  same  extent  as
  those provided generally in the community.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-S - Contracts Between Municipalities and Fire Districts for Joint Fire Training Centers.

§ 209-s. Contracts between municipalities and fire districts for joint
  fire  training  centers.    The  local  governing  bodies of the several
  cities, towns, villages and fire districts  of  the  state,  are  hereby
  authorized  on  behalf  of  their respective cities, towns, villages and
  fire districts to enter into contracts with any  other  municipality  or
  municipalities  or  fire  districts  for the construction, operation and
  maintenance and joint use  of  fire  training  centers  at  their  joint
  expense.  Any  such  contract  may  provide  for  the  apportionment and
  allocation of expenses among the parties and, in the case of expenses of
  a town, may make provision for the  elimination  of  dual  liability  of
  taxable  real property within the boundaries of the contracting parties;
  provided however, that unless the governing board of any village  within
  the  town  shall  agree  otherwise,  the expenses of a town shall not be
  charged against the taxable real property within such village.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-T - Contracts for Joint Fire Alarm Systems.

§  209-t. Contracts for joint fire alarm systems.  The local governing
  bodies of the several villages and  fire  districts  of  the  state  are
  hereby  authorized  on  behalf  of  their  respective  villages and fire
  districts to enter  into  contracts  with  any  other  village  or  fire
  district  for  the construction, operation and maintenance and joint use
  of a fire alarm system at their joint  expense  (each  village  or  fire
  district  bearing  a  part  of the expense in proportion to the assessed
  valuation of real estate in such village or fire district,  or  on  such
  other basis or division as may be jointly agreed upon).
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-V - Employment of Retired Persons as Special Patrolmen for Publicly Owned Property.

§  209-v.  Employment  of  retired  persons  as  special patrolmen for
  publicly owned  property.  1.  Notwithstanding  any  general,  local  or
  special  law  or charter provision, the governing board of any political
  subdivision may authorize any police or law enforcement agency  of  such
  political  subdivision  to  employ  retired  former members of police or
  sheriff's departments, or the  division  of  state  police,  or  retired
  former  correction,  parole  or  probation  officers  for the purpose of
  providing special patrolmen  in  publicly  owned  property  within  such
  political subdivision, including property of a school district, in order
  to protect the property or persons on such premises.
2. Persons so employed shall have all the powers of peace officers, as
  set forth in section 2.20 of the criminal procedure law, when performing
  the duties set forth in subdivision one of this section.
3.  The  governing  board of such political subdivision shall have the
  power to fix the compensation of persons so employed, either  at  annual
  or  per  diem  rates.  Employments provided for in this section shall be
  subject to the provisions of article seven of the retirement and  social
  security law.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-W - Permanent Appointment of Fire Fighters; Completion of Training Program.

§  209-w.  Permanent  appointment  of  fire  fighters;  completion  of
  training program. 1. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  any  general,
  special, or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after
  the   effective   date   of   regulations  adopted  by  the  state  fire
  administrator  pursuant  to  section  one  hundred  fifty-eight  of  the
  executive law, receive an original appointment on a permanent basis as a
  fire fighter of any county, city, town, village, or fire district unless
  such  person has previously been awarded a certificate by the state fire
  administrator attesting to his or  her  satisfactory  completion  of  an
  approved  fire basic training program; and every person who is appointed
  on a temporary basis or for a probationary  term  or  on  other  than  a
  permanent  basis as a fire fighter of any county, city, town, village or
  fire district shall forfeit his or her position as such unless he or she
  previously has satisfactorily completed, or within the  time  prescribed
  by  regulations  promulgated by the state fire administrator pursuant to
  section one hundred fifty-eight of  the  executive  law,  satisfactorily
  completes,  a  fire basic training program for temporary or probationary
  fire  fighters  and  is  awarded  a  certificate  by  the   state   fire
  administrator attesting thereto.
2. The term fire fighter, as used in this section, shall mean a member
  of  a  fire  department  whose duties include fire service as the phrase
  fire service is defined in paragraph d of subdivision eleven of  section
  three hundred two of the retirement and social security law.
3.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be construed to exempt any fire
  fighter or other officer or employee from the provisions  of  the  civil
  service law.
4.  The provisions of this section shall not prevent the establishment
  of more restrictive local requirements for appointment of fire fighters.
5. Any person whose name was on an eligible list  for  appointment  in
  the  competitive  class  of  the  civil service as a fire fighter on the
  effective date of any rules and regulations  promulgated  by  the  state
  fire  administrator  pursuant  to section one hundred fifty-eight of the
  executive  law  shall  continue  to  remain   eligible   for   permanent
  appointment  from  such  list  during  the  life  of  such  list without
  satisfying the  requirements  set  forth  in  subdivision  one  of  this
  section,  provided  he or she would otherwise have remained eligible for
  permanent appointment from such  list  if  this  section  had  not  been
  enacted.
6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to appointments made
  by  any  county, city, town, village or fire district which employs five
  or fewer fire fighters.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-X - Training of Certain Paid City Firefighters Promoted to a First-Line Supervisory Position.

§  209-x.  Training  of  certain  paid city firefighters promoted to a
  first-line supervisory position. 1. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
  any  general,  special  or  local  law  or  charter to the contrary, any
  officer of a paid fire department promoted to a  first-line  supervisory
  position  after  passing a civil service examination shall, on and after
  April first, nineteen hundred eighty-five, attend  a  training  program,
  not  to exceed four weeks, in fire supervision at the New York city fire
  academy in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to
  article six-C of the executive law.
2.  The  expenses  incurred  in  furnishing  such  program   in   fire
  supervision  to  an  officer  referred  to  in  subdivision  one hereof,
  including the furnishing of meals and lodging at such academy, shall  be
  paid  by  the  city  of New York. Reasonable travel expenses incurred by
  said officer shall also be paid by said city but  only  if  such  travel
  expense  would  not otherwise be incurred by said officer in the regular
  course of this employment.
3. The expenses incurred by the city of  New  York  pursuant  to  this
  section  shall be reimbursed by the state, except that expenses incurred
  by such city in excess of one million dollars and directly  attributable
  to  training  any  officers  of such city's fire department shall not be
  subject to state reimbursement.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-Y - Establishment of Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Teams.

§  209-y.  Establishment  of  hazardous  materials  emergency response
  teams. 1. By resolution, the governing body of each county is authorized
  to establish a hazardous materials emergency response team.  Such  teams
  shall  be  coordinated  in  accordance with a plan developed pursuant to
  section two hundred four-f of this chapter.
2. The governing  bodies  of  two  or  more  counties  may  by  mutual
  agreement  form  one  or  more  regional  hazardous  materials emergency
  response teams. Such regional teams shall be coordinated  in  accordance
  with  a  plan  developed  pursuant to section two hundred four-f of this
  chapter.
3. Counties are authorized to appropriate and expend such sums as  are
  deemed  necessary to establish or maintain hazardous materials emergency
  response teams pursuant to this section.
4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  any
  person  who  is  by  training  or experience and attainment qualified to
  participate as a member of a hazardous materials incidents response team
  recognized  under  this  section  and  who   voluntarily   and   without
  expectation  of  monetary  compensation  serves as a member of such team
  shall not be subject to a penalty or to civil liability for  damages  or
  injuries  alleged  to  have  been  sustained  by any person or entity by
  reason of an act or omission in the course of such service.  Nothing  in
  this  section shall be deemed or construed to relieve from liability for
  damages or injuries any person who (a) is alleged to  have  caused  said
  damages  or  injuries  as  the  result  of gross negligence or reckless,
  wanton, or intentional conduct, (b) is under a legal duty to respond  to
  a   particular   incident,  or  (c)  receives  compensation  other  than
  reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses for services in response  to  a
  particular incident.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-Z - Annual Independent Audits.

§  209-z.  Annual independent audits. 1. Notwithstanding any provision
  of general or special  law  to  the  contrary,  any  fire  company  with
  revenues  of four hundred thousand dollars, or such lesser amount as the
  state comptroller shall designate, that contracts  with  a  city,  town,
  village  or fire district to provide fire service shall obtain an annual
  audit of its records by an independent certified public accountant or an
  independent public accountant. Such audit shall be an examination of the
  revenues and expenditures in connection with such contract or contracts.
  Such audit shall indicate whether the fire company  has  filed  Internal
  Revenue  Service  Form  990  and any report required pursuant to section
  thirty-three-a of this chapter. If such filings are  required  and  have
  not  been  made, the audit shall include an examination of all revenues,
  expenditures and  resources  from  any  source.  For  purposes  of  this
  section,  the  term  "fire  company"  shall have the same meaning as set
  forth for such term in section  three  of  the  volunteer  firefighters'
  benefit law.
2.  A  copy  of  the  audit report in the form prescribed by the state
  comptroller and certified by the accountant shall be  furnished  to  the
  entity,  and  the municipal corporation with which the entity contracts,
  within one hundred eighty days following the  end  of  the  fiscal  year
  audited.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11 - Acquisition of Lands by the United States › 210 - United States May Acquire Land in Cities.

§  210. United States may acquire land in cities. The United States is
  hereby authorized to  acquire  by  condemnation,  purchase  or  gift  in
  conformity  with  the laws of this state, one or more pieces of land not
  exceeding two acres in extent, in any city or village of this state, for
  the purpose of erecting and maintaining thereon a  public  building  for
  the  accommodation of post-offices and other governmental offices in any
  such city or village.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11 - Acquisition of Lands by the United States › 211 - Certified Copy of Transfer to Be Filed.

§  211.  Certified  copy  of transfer to be filed. Whenever the United
  States, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any  head  of
  an  executive  department  of the government of the United States, shall
  cause to be filed in the office of the secretary of state of this state,
  maps and descriptions by metes and bounds of any  such  pieces  of  land
  which  had been acquired by the United States for the purposes specified
  in section two hundred and ten of this article, exclusive  jurisdiction,
  except as provided in section two hundred and twelve, is thereupon ceded
  to  the  United States over the lands so described, during the time that
  the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof.  Such maps shall
  be drawn with pen  and  India  ink  upon  tracing  cloth  and  shall  be
  otherwise in form and manner suitable to the files, records and purposes
  of  the office of the secretary of state, and show such data thereon, or
  in relation thereto, as may be required by the secretary of state.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11 - Acquisition of Lands by the United States › 212 - Jurisdiction of State Not Affected.

§  212.  Jurisdiction of state not affected. The jurisdiction ceded to
  the United States as prescribed by this article shall  not  prevent  the
  execution on the land acquired for the purposes specified in section two
  hundred  and  ten  of  any  process  civil or criminal, issued under the
  authority of the state, except as such process might affect the property
  of the United States thereon; nor prevent, in the case of  lands  within
  the  Adirondack  park  as defined in section 9-0101 of the environmental
  conservation law, the application of section eight hundred seventeen  of
  the executive law thereto.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-A - Service Award Programs › 214 - Purpose.

§ 214. Purpose. 1. It is hereby declared that this article is intended
  to  effectuate  the  objects and purposes of section eighteen of article
  one of the constitution and that the relationship between the  political
  subdivision liable for payments of service awards under this article and
  a  volunteer  firefighter  entitled to such payments is that of employer
  and employee within the meaning of such provision of  the  constitution.
  In no event shall the receipt of a service award under the provisions of
  this  article  be  deemed  to  constitute  membership  in any pension or
  retirement system of the state or of a civil division thereon within the
  purview of section seven of article five of the constitution.
2. It is hereby further declared that this article is also intended to
  provide service awards for volunteer firefighters of  incorporated  fire
  companies  or  departments  which  are not otherwise part of a political
  subdivision of this state and who do not  fall  within  the  purview  of
  subdivision one of this section.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-A - Service Award Programs › 217-A - Public Information Website.

§  217-a.  Public  information  website.  1. The comptroller is hereby
authorized to make available to the public on  its  website  information
about  vendors  of  service  award  programs,  both defined contribution
programs and defined benefit programs, for volunteer firefighters.  Such
information shall include, but need not be limited to:
(a)  categorization by class of all costs, fees and commissions of any
type;
(b) rate of return on investment for one, three,  five  and  ten  year
periods  ending  December thirty-first, including gross of all costs and
net of all costs;
(c) length of time the company has been in business;
(d) information regarding management stability including the length of
tenure of board members;
(e) description of investment  structure  including  its  ten  largest
holdings;
(f) statement of investment philosophy;
(g)  list of all representatives and their relationship to any program
sponsor;
(h) percentage of investments bought or sold during each year.
2. The comptroller is hereby authorized to develop and  distribute  to
every  vendor, not more than sixty days after the effective date of this
section, a form that shall be used for the  purpose  of  collecting  the
information  required  by  subdivision one of this section and any other
information  the  comptroller  may  deem  desirable  to  accomplish  the
purposes  of  this  section. Every vendor shall return such forms to the
comptroller no later than ninety days after the effective date  of  this
section  and  annually thereafter, but no later than March first of each
year commencing  in  two  thousand  eight.  The  comptroller  is  hereby
authorized  to publish the information obtained from such forms and make
it available to New York residents on  the  office  of  the  comptroller
website by July first, two thousand eight and annually thereafter.
3.  As  used in this section, "vendor" shall mean an organization duly
authorized to do business  in  the  state  and  which  is  qualified  to
administer  and  maintain  records  and  accounts of defined benefit and
defined contribution plans which meet the requirements for qualification
under the internal revenue code and  governmental  defined  benefit  and
defined contribution plans.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AA - Defined Contribution Service Award Programs for Volunteer Ambulance Workers › 219-B - Purpose.

§ 219-b.  Purpose. It is hereby declared that this article is intended
  to  effectuate  the  objects and purposes of section eighteen of article
  one of the constitution and that the relationship between the  political
  subdivision liable for payments of service awards under this article and
  a  volunteer  ambulance  worker  entitled  to  such  payments is that of
  employer and employee within  the  meaning  of  such  provision  of  the
  constitution.    In  no event shall the receipt of a service award under
  the provisions of this article be deemed to constitute membership in any
  pension or retirement system of the state or of a civil division thereof
  within the purview of section seven of article five of the constitution.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AA - Defined Contribution Service Award Programs for Volunteer Ambulance Workers › 219-G - Funding.

§  219-g.  Funding.  1. The cost of a service award program shall be a
charge against the sponsor.  The governing board of  the  sponsor  shall
appropriate  annually  an  amount  equal to the estimated amount due the
service award program during the fiscal year for which the appropriation
is made.  On or before May first, or such date as may be  prescribed  by
rules   and  regulations  promulgated  by  the  state  comptroller,  the
governing board, without prior submission of a claim, shall  direct  the
chief  fiscal officer of the sponsor to pay to the program administrator
the amount due the program.
2. (a) Before or after a service award  program  is  adopted  for  the
volunteer  ambulance  workers of an ambulance company which contracts to
provide service to one or more political  subdivisions  other  than  the
prospective  or  actual  sponsor of the program, the governing boards of
the sponsor and one or more of such  other  political  subdivisions  may
enter  into  agreements  to  apportion  the  cost  of the program in any
equitable  manner  between  the  sponsor  and   such   other   political
subdivisions.
(b) No such agreement shall be entered into by a political subdivision
other  than the sponsor unless a resolution authorizing the agreement is
approved by the affirmative vote  of  at  least  sixty  percent  of  the
governing   board   of  the  political  subdivision  and  a  proposition
authorizing the agreement or amendment is approved at  a  referendum  of
the electors of the political subdivision.
(c)  The  proposition  authorizing the agreement or amendment shall be
submitted to referendum not less than thirty  days  and  not  more  than
ninety  days  after the governing board votes to authorize the agreement
or amendment.   Notice of the referendum shall  be  published  at  least
once,  not  less than fourteen days prior to the date of the referendum,
in the official newspaper  of  the  political  subdivision  or,  if  the
political  subdivision  does  not  have an official newspaper, in one or
more newspapers having general circulation in the political subdivision.
(d) Any such  agreement  shall  remain  in  effect  until  amended  or
terminated  by  resolution and submission of a proposition to referendum
as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision, but shall  be
suspended with respect to any such political subdivision which ceases to
contract  with  the ambulance company or in the event the sponsor ceases
to contract with the ambulance company.
(e) The amount to be paid by a political subdivision  under  any  such
contract  shall  be a charge against the political subdivision and shall
be paid to the sponsor.  The governing board of the sponsor shall  apply
the  amount  received  under any such contract to reduce the amount that
would otherwise be raised for the program from the sponsor.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AA - Defined Contribution Service Award Programs for Volunteer Ambulance Workers › 219-I - Conversion to Defined Benefit Plan.

§  219-i. Conversion to defined benefit plan. The sponsor of a service
  award program adopted pursuant to this article may convert such  program
  into  a  defined  benefit  plan authorized by article eleven-AAA of this
  chapter  by  adopting  a  defined  benefit  service  award  program   in
  accordance  with  the  procedures  set  forth  in  section  two  hundred
  nineteen-l of this chapter. Upon conversion to a defined benefit plan, a
  service award program adopted pursuant to this  article  which  provides
  contributions  for  years of ambulance service rendered by a participant
  during the five calendar years immediately preceding the year  in  which
  the  program  is  adopted need not provide credit for years of ambulance
  service rendered  prior  to  the  adoption  of  the  program.  Upon  the
  conversion  of a service award program, the program shall be governed by
  the provisions of article eleven-AAA of this chapter as if  the  program
  was  originally  adopted  pursuant to such article eleven-AAA, provided,
  that (1) conversion of a service award  program  shall  not  affect  the
  number  of  years  of  ambulance service earned by a volunteer ambulance
  worker or a participant's status as having a nonforfeitable right  to  a
  service  award or the amount of a service award paid in whole or in part
  prior to the conversion, and (2) upon  conversion  of  a  service  award
  program  adopted  pursuant  to this article which provides contributions
  for years of ambulance service rendered by a participant during the five
  calendar years immediately preceding the year in which  the  program  is
  adopted,  if  the  converted  program  provides  for credit for years of
  ambulance service rendered by a participant  during  the  five  calendar
  years immediately preceding the year in which the program is adopted, if
  the converted program provides for credit for years of ambulance service
  rendered  during  the  five  calendar  years  immediately  preceding the
  adoption of the program, such five year period shall  be  measured  from
  the  date  of  adoption  of  the  program  pursuant to this article. The
  comptroller may  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  relating  to  such
  conversions including, but not limited to, the disposition of assets and
  the  time  and manner of making any additional payments required to fund
  benefits attributable to years of ambulance service earned prior to  the
  conversion over a period not to exceed five years.
2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 11-AAA - Defined Benefit Service Award Program for Volunteer Ambulance Workers › 219-J - Purpose.

§ 219-j.  Purpose. It is hereby declared that this article is intended
  to  effectuate  the  objects and purposes of section eighteen of article
  one of the constitution and that the relationship between the  political
  subdivision liable for payments of service awards under this article and
  a  volunteer  ambulance  worker  entitled  to  such  payments is that of
  employer and employee within  the  meaning  of  such  provision  of  the
  constitution.    In  no event shall the receipt of a service award under
  the provisions of this article be deemed to constitute membership in any
  pension or retirement system of the state or of a civil division thereof
  within the purview of section seven of article five of the constitution.