2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers › 209-E - Fire Mobilization and Mutual Aid Plan.

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