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2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9 - Ordinances and Licenses › 138 - Building Inspector.

§ 138. Building inspector. The town board of any town which shall have
  adopted  a  building code, plumbing code, electrical code, housing code,
  or ordinances, rules and regulations for fire  prevention,  or  for  the
  removal  or  repair  of unsafe buildings or collapsed structures, or for
  any of such purposes, pursuant to the provisions of  this  article,  may
  appoint a town building inspector, and in a town of the first class such
  assistants  thereto  as  the town board may determine necessary, and fix
  the compensation thereof.  Such  inspector  shall  have  charge  of  the
  enforcement of such codes, ordinances, rules and regulations of the town
  and  of  the zoning ordinance of the town, if there be one, and for such
  purposes such inspector, and his assistants,  if  any,  shall  have  the
  right  to  enter  and  inspect  at  any  time any building, structure or
  premises and to perform any other act necessary for the  enforcement  of
  such  codes,  ordinances,  rules  or regulations, or any of them. In any
  such town, the town board may appoint a  deputy  building  inspector  to
  assist  the  building inspector in the duties of his office. Such deputy
  building inspector and assistant building inspectors shall perform  such
  duties  not  inconsistent  with  law  as  shall  be  assigned  to  them,
  respectively, by the building inspector and in the  performance  thereof
  shall  have the same right to enter and inspect any building and perform
  other  necessary  acts  as  hereinbefore  conferred  upon  the  building
  inspector.
Any  license  or permit required, under the provisions of the building
  code, plumbing code, electrical code or housing code shall be issued  by
  the building inspector or deputy building inspector. Notwithstanding the
  provisions  of  subdivision one of section thirty-seven of this chapter,
  the town board may direct that fees for licenses and permits  issued  by
  the  building  inspector  or deputy shall be payable to and collected by
  such inspector.
All charges and expenses, including salaries, incurred by the building
  inspector and his deputy and assistants in connection  with  his  duties
  under  this section, less fees, collected if any, shall be a charge upon
  the  taxable  property  of  that  part  of  the  town  outside  of   any
  incorporated  village  and  shall  be  assessed,  levied  and  collected
  therefrom in the same manner as other town charges  levied  on  property
  outside of villages.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9 - Ordinances and Licenses › 139 - Agreements With Fire Districts.

§  139. Agreements with fire districts. If in the judgment of the town
  board it is advisable for the safety and welfare of the inhabitants of a
  fire district in the town that the issuance of a  town  fire  permit  to
  burn grass, leaves, brush, rubbish, refuse, buildings or other materials
  in  a  fire district should be issued, and preliminary investigations in
  relation thereto should be made, by a person or  persons  most  familiar
  with  local  grass and brush fire hazard conditions in the fire district
  and the availability of fire-fighting vehicles  and  firefighters,  then
  the  town  board,  notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred
  thirty-eight of this chapter, may provide in any fire  prevention  code,
  whether  adopted  by local law or by ordinance, that an agreement may be
  entered into with the board of fire commissioners of any  fire  district
  located  wholly or partly in the town that the issuance of such permits,
  and preliminary investigations in relation thereto,  on  behalf  of  the
  town  will  be  performed by the fire district within the limits of such
  district in such town, the fire district to utilize the services of  the
  chief  engineer  and  assistant  engineers  of  the  fire  district fire
  department in the performance of such duties agreed to be  performed  by
  the  fire  district. Any such agreement shall be for such period of time
  and on such terms as may be agreed upon, except that  it  shall  provide
  (1)  that  it  may be terminated by the town after written notice to the
  fire district and after a change in such fire prevention code to provide
  a different procedure for issuing such permits will become effective and
  (2) that it may be terminated by  the  fire  district  upon  sixty  days
  written  notice to the town. If any fire prevention code contains such a
  provision authorizing such an agreement, the town board of the town  and
  the  board  of fire commissioners of any fire district located wholly or
  partly in the town shall have power to enter into such agreement.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9-A - Self-Supporting Improvements › 140 - Definitions.

§   140.   Definitions.   As   used   in   this   article:  The  term,
  "self-supporting improvements" shall mean any dock, pier, wharf, bathing
  beach  or  recreational  facility  and  parking  areas   in   connection
  therewith,  established pursuant to this article from which revenues are
  obtained by the imposition and  collection  of  rates,  fees,  tolls  or
  admissions.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9-A - Self-Supporting Improvements › 141 - Acquisition or Establishment of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§  141.  Acquisition or establishment of self-supporting improvements.
  The town board of any town in Suffolk county and of  any  suburban  town
  may,  by  ordinance, provide for the acquisition, construction, lease or
  purchase of  any  self-supporting  improvement,  or  may  establish  any
  existing  dock, pier, wharf, bathing beach or recreational facility, and
  parking areas in connection therewith as a self-supporting  improvement,
  pursuant to the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9-A - Self-Supporting Improvements › 142 - Charges for Use of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§ 142. Charges for use of self-supporting improvements. The town board
  of  any  town  in  Suffolk  county  and  of  any  suburban town, may, by
  ordinance, rule, or regulation after a public  hearing  held  on  notice
  published at least once in a newspaper circulating in the town, not less
  than ten days prior to such hearing, establish or revise charges for the
  use  or  enjoyment  of  any self-supporting improvement. Such town board
  shall establish charges for the use or enjoyment of any such improvement
  for a daily, hourly or single use of such improvement.  In  addition  to
  such  daily,  hourly  or  single use charges, the town board of any such
  town may establish weekly, seasonal or annual charges  for  the  use  or
  enjoyment  of  any self-supporting improvement. Applications for weekly,
  seasonal or annual permits to use such self-supporting improvement shall
  be made on forms supplied by the officer or employee  placed  in  charge
  thereof  by  the town board of such town, and the charges therefor shall
  be paid upon the issuance of such permits. Such charges  shall  be  used
  only  for  the  purpose  of  operating,  maintaining  and improving such
  self-supporting improvement,  including  reserves  and  the  payment  of
  principal  and  interest on any bonds, notes or other obligations issued
  for the  acquisition,  construction,  lease,  purchase,  improvement  or
  reconstruction of any such self-supporting improvement.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 9-A - Self-Supporting Improvements › 143 - Use of Self-Supporting Improvements.

§ 143. Use of self-supporting improvements. The town board of any town
  in  Suffolk  county  and of any suburban town may, by ordinance, rule or
  regulation after a public hearing,  held  on  notice  as  prescribed  in
  section  one  hundred  forty-two  of this chapter, limit the use of such
  self-supporting improvement to residents of the town  and/or  limit  the
  number  of  persons  who  may  be  permitted  to use any self-supporting
  improvement at any time to the number of users  which  such  town  board
  shall   find   such  self-supporting  improvement  may  efficiently  and
  economically serve or accommodate and limit  admission  or  use  to  the
  persons  applying  therefor  in  the  order  in  which  applications for
  admission are made.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 151 - Qualifications.

§  151.  Qualifications. No person shall be eligible to appointment or
  reappointment to such  police  department,  nor  continue  as  a  member
  thereof,  who  shall not be a citizen of the United States, who has been
  convicted  of  a  felony,  who  shall  be  unable  to  read  and   write
  understandingly  the English language or who shall not reside within the
  state of New York and in any town or village in the county in which such
  town is situated at the time of his or her appointment.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 152 - Promotion.

§  152.  Promotion.  The  town  board may determine that promotions of
  officers and members of such police department shall be made by the town
  board on the basis of seniority, meritorious police service and superior
  capacity as shown by competitive examination,  such  examination  to  be
  conducted  by  the appropriate civil service commission. Individual acts
  of personal bravery may be treated as an element of meritorious  service
  in such examination. The town board shall keep a complete service record
  of each member of such police department in accordance with the rules of
  the  appropriate  civil service commission and shall transmit the record
  of each candidate for promotion to  such  civil  service  commission  in
  advance of such examination.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 153 - Transfers.

§ 153. Transfers. Transfers from one town police department to another
  town  or  village  police department in the same county may be made upon
  the mutual  consent  of  the  appointing  officers  of  the  departments
  affected. Any member of such police force who is or has been transferred
  shall  receive credit with the department to which he is transferred for
  time served on the police force or in the department of any  village  or
  town  within  the  same  county, as though the full time had been served
  with the department to which he has been transferred,  for  purposes  of
  seniority, promotion, pensions and general administration.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 154 - Administration.

§  154.  Administration.  The  town  board may make, adopt and enforce
  rules,  orders  and  regulations   for   the   government,   discipline,
  administration  and  disposition  of  the  police  department and of the
  members thereof. Such rules and regulations and all  amendments  thereto
  shall  be  in  writing and shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the
  police headquarters. Each member of the department shall receive a  copy
  thereof and of all amendments thereto.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 154-A - Physical Examinations.

§ 154-a. Physical examinations. The town board may, from time to time,
  provide,  by  resolution,  for  the  physical  examination of any or all
  members  of  the  police  department  by  a  duly  qualified   physician
  designated  by the town board. The costs of such examinations shall be a
  town charge.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 156 - Effect of Resignation.

§  156. Effect of resignation. Any member of such department who shall
  resign shall be eligible for reinstatement in the same police  force  or
  police  department  or in any other police force or police department to
  which he was eligible for transfer  at  the  time  of  his  resignation,
  provided  such  reinstatement  occurs  within  one  year  of the date of
  resignation and further provided that such application for reinstatement
  shall be made in writing within such one year period.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 10 - Police › 157 - Absentee Leave.

§ 157. Absentee leave. Every member of such police department shall be
  entitled,  in  addition to any vacation or absentee leave now prescribed
  by law, to one day of rest in seven. The chief or acting  chief  of  the
  police  department  shall  keep  a time book showing the name and shield
  number of each member of the department and the hours worked by each  of
  such  police  officers  in each day. The town board may make a variation
  from the above prescribed hours of vacation, provided the  member  shall
  receive  during  each  year  the actual number of days absentee leave to
  which he or she is entitled. The town board,  at  its  option,  may,  in
  addition  to  the  days  of  rest hereinbefore provided, grant an annual
  vacation with pay. Whenever the town board shall  designate  any  police
  officer  to attend police school, such attendance shall be deemed in the
  course of duty and when so attending he or she shall receive his or  her
  usual  pay  and  reimbursement  for  actual and necessary expenses. Sick
  leave with full pay may be granted whenever such sickness or  disability
  has been incurred without the delinquency of the police officer.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 172-E - Change of Name of Fire District.

§  172-e. Change of name of fire district. The name of a fire district
  may be changed upon a resolution of the board of fire  commissioners  of
  such  fire  district after a public hearing thereon. Such public hearing
  shall be held prior to the first day  of  September  in  any  year.  The
  notice  of  such  hearing shall state the proposed new name and shall be
  published and posted, and such hearing shall  be  held,  in  the  manner
  provided  in this article for a hearing upon the establishment of a fire
  district upon petition. After such hearing and upon the  evidence  given
  thereat,  the  board of fire commissioners shall determine by resolution
  whether it be in the public interest to change the  name  of  such  fire
  district. If it be so determined, the board of fire commissioners, by an
  approving  vote  of not less than three-fifths of the voting strength of
  the board, shall adopt a resolution establishing the new  name  for  the
  fire  district  to  take  effect on the first day of January of the next
  fiscal year of the fire district. Within ten days after the  passage  of
  such resolution, the fire district secretary shall file a certified copy
  of  such  resolution (1) in the office of the town clerk of each town in
  which such district is situated, (2) in the office of the  county  clerk
  of  each county in which such district is situated, (3) in the office of
  the clerk of the board of supervisors  of  each  county  in  which  such
  district  is  situated, and (4) in the office of the state department of
  audit and control at Albany, New York.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 172-G - Filing of Determination.

§  172-g.  Filing  of  determination.  1.  Whenever  the board of fire
  commissioners and the town board shall adopt  a  resolution  diminishing
  the area of a fire district and including such area in a fire protection
  district, the town clerk shall cause a certified copy of such resolution
  to  be  duly  recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which
  such fire district and fire protection district are located, and  shall,
  within ten days cause a certified copy of such resolution to be filed in
  the  state  department of audit and control at Albany, New York. When so
  recorded,  such  resolution  shall  be  presumptive  evidence   of   the
  regularity  of the establishment of the fire protection district and the
  diminution of the fire district. The expense of such recording shall  be
  a  charge  against  the fire district.   The said determination shall be
  final and conclusive unless a proceeding has been commenced for a review
  in the manner provided by article seventy-eight of  the  civil  practice
  law and rules within thirty days from the time of recording thereof.
2.  In  the  event  that  the  boundaries  of  a  fire district having
  indebtedness, either bonded or temporary, shall be  diminished  pursuant
  hereto,  such  district  shall continue in law as it existed immediately
  prior to such change of  boundaries  for  the  purpose  of  paying  such
  indebtedness,  and  there shall be annually assessed and levied upon and
  collected from the taxable real property  within  such  district  as  it
  existed  immediately  prior to such diminution of its boundaries, and in
  the same manner and at the time and by the same officers as  town  taxes
  are  assessed,  levied  and  collected,  a  sum  sufficient  to pay such
  indebtedness and interest thereon as the same shall become due. All  and
  only  the real property within the diminished boundaries of the district
  as they exist after the diminution  thereof  shall  be  liable  for  the
  payment of indebtedness incurred for the purposes of such district after
  such  diminution. For the purposes hereof, such diminution of boundaries
  shall be deemed effective upon the adoption by the  town  board  of  the
  resolution providing therefor, unless such resolution shall specify some
  other  date  for  such  purpose,  in which case such diminution shall be
  deemed effective upon the date so specified.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 175-C - Notice of Hearings and Elections.

§ 175-c. Notice of hearings and elections. 1. In addition to any other
  notice or posting requirement, every fire district secretary shall cause
  a  notice  of  any upcoming hearing or election to be posted on the fire
  district website, if one exists. Such notice  shall  be  posted  for  at
  least  fifteen  days  prior to such hearing or election and shall not be
  posted any sooner than twenty days before such hearing or  election.  If
  the  fire  district  maintains a sign board, a copy of such notice shall
  also be posted on the sign board.
2. Every fire district secretary shall provide, in a timely manner,  a
  notice of any upcoming hearing or election to be posted on the municipal
  website  of  any  town  located  within the geographic boundaries of the
  district,  or  any  town  or  fire  district  with  which  the  district
  contracts. Such posting shall only be required if such a website exists.
  Such  notice  shall  be  posted  for at least fifteen days prior to such
  hearing or election and shall not be posted any sooner than twenty  days
  before  such hearing or election. In addition, the town clerk shall post
  or cause to be posted on the bulletin board in his or her office a  copy
  of  such  notice and on the sign board maintained by him or her pursuant
  to subdivision six of section thirty of this  chapter.  The  town  clerk
  shall cooperate with the fire district to ensure the timely notification
  of the upcoming hearing or election.
3. The notice required by this section shall specify the time when and
  the place where such hearing or election will be held, and, with respect
  to  elections,  the  officers  to be elected, their terms of office, and
  details regarding other matters to be voted on, as  well  as  the  hours
  during which the polls will be open for the receipt of ballots.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 176-C - Removal of Fire Commissioners.

§  176-c.  Removal of fire commissioners. Any fire commissioner may be
  removed for dereliction of duty. Dereliction of duty shall include,  but
  not be limited to, excessive unexcused absences from regularly scheduled
  meetings.  These  criteria  for  removal are in addition to the criteria
  provided in section thirty-six of the public officers law.  Any  removal
  pursuant  to this section shall take place pursuant to the procedure for
  removal established in section thirty-six of the public officers law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 176-D - Funding of Fire Districts.

§   176-d.  Funding  of  fire  districts.  Notwithstanding  any  other
  provision of law to the contrary, a fire district may include as part of
  its  budget  an  appropriation   to   fund   an   annual   firefighters'
  inspection-dinner for each fire company within the fire district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 176-E - Training Requirements for Fire Commissioners.

§  176-e.  Training  requirements  for  fire  commissioners. Each fire
  commissioner    shall    attend    and    successfully    complete     a
  commissioner-specific  state-approved training course within two hundred
  seventy days of the taking of  such  office.  The  course  will  contain
  training  related  to  legal,  fiduciary,  financial,  procurement,  and
  ethical responsibilities and such other disciplines as may be prescribed
  by the state comptroller. Such course shall be prescribed and  certified
  in  rules  promulgated  by the state comptroller. The manner, frequency,
  and duration of such course shall be established by such  rules.  Course
  materials  should  be  made available upon request. When approved by the
  board of fire commissioners in advance of a commissioner attending  such
  training  course,  the  actual  and  necessary  expenses  incurred  by a
  commissioner in successfully completing the training  required  by  this
  section shall be a charge against the fire district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 177-B - Powers and Duties of Deputy Fire District Treasurers.

§  177-b.  Powers  and duties of deputy fire district treasurers.  The
  board of fire commissioners of any fire district may  appoint  a  deputy
  fire  district  treasurer  to  hold office until the thirty-first day of
  December  next  succeeding  his  appointment.  During  the  absence   or
  inability  to act of the fire district treasurer, or while the office of
  fire district treasurer is vacant, the deputy  fire  district  treasurer
  shall be vested with all of the powers and may perform all of the duties
  of  the  fire  district  treasurer  under this chapter or any other law,
  including the provisions of subdivision  four  of  section  one  hundred
  seventy-six  of  this  chapter  relating  to the giving and filing of an
  official undertaking.  The fire district treasurer shall not  be  liable
  for the acts of a deputy fire district treasurer.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 177-C - Powers and Duties of the Director of Purchasing.

§  177-c. Powers and duties of the director of purchasing. In any fire
  district in  which  the  office  of  director  of  purchasing  has  been
  established  and  a director of purchasing shall have been appointed and
  qualified, the director of purchasing shall make all purchases  and  all
  contracts  for supplies, materials and equipment of every nature for the
  fire district within budgetary appropriations provided therefor.  Before
  making  any  purchase, the director of purchasing shall comply with such
  rules and regulations in relation  thereto  as  may  be  established  by
  resolution  of  the fire commissioners and such provisions of law as may
  be applicable thereto, including article five-A of the general municipal
  law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 178 - Powers and Duties of Fire District Secretary.

§ 178. Powers and duties of fire district secretary. The fire district
  secretary  shall attend all meetings of the board of fire commissioners,
  act as clerk thereof, and keep a complete and  accurate  record  of  the
  proceedings   of  each  meeting  and  of  all  propositions,  rules  and
  regulations  adopted  pursuant  to  this  article.  The  fire   district
  secretary  shall have such additional powers and perform such additional
  duties  as  the  board  of  fire  commissioners   may   determine,   not
  inconsistent with law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 178-A - Expenses Incurred in Attending Town and County Officers Training School.

§  178-a.  Expenses  incurred  in  attending  town and county officers
  training school. The actual and necessary expenses incurred  by  a  fire
  district  officer  or person duly elected as a fire district officer, in
  attending a course of training for his respective office as provided  by
  the  town  and  county officers training school of the state of New York
  for the purpose of improving the administration of municipal affairs  in
  the  town  and counties of the state, shall be a charge against the fire
  district of which he is an officer or officer-elect. No person, however,
  shall be allowed such expenses for attending a  regional  school  unless
  his  district  shall  be  included  within  the  area  of such region as
  established by the board of trustees of the  town  and  county  officers
  training   school   of  the  state  of  New  York.  The  board  of  fire
  commissioners, in lieu of auditing and allowing  the  claim  of  a  fire
  district  officer or officer-elect for actual and necessary expenses for
  travel in attending any  such  course  of  training,  may  determine  by
  resolution  to  allow and pay such officer or officer-elect a reasonable
  mileage allowance for the use  of  his  own  automobile  for  each  mile
  actually  and  necessarily  traveled  by him in attending such course of
  training.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 178-B - Expenses of the Association of Fire Districts of the State of New York.

§ 178-b. Expenses of the association of fire districts of the state of
  New  York.  The  board  of  fire  commissioners of any fire district may
  determine to expend and raise by taxation annually such sums as  may  be
  required   toward   defraying  the  actual  and  necessary  expenses  of
  maintaining and continuing the association  of  fire  districts  of  the
  state  of  New  York,  and  any  of its activities in this state for the
  purpose of devising  practical  ways  and  means  of  obtaining  greater
  economy and efficiency in the administration of fire district affairs.
The  board of fire commissioners of any fire district may determine to
  expend and raise by taxation annually such sums as may  be  required  to
  defray  the proportionate share of such fire district to meet the actual
  and necessary expenses of maintaining  and  continuing  (1)  the  county
  association of fire districts or the county association of fire district
  officers  of the fire districts in a county in which all or part of such
  fire district  is  located  and  (2)  a  regional  association  of  fire
  districts  or  a  regional  association of fire district officers of the
  fire districts located in an area of adjoining counties, and to maintain
  and continue any of the activities of  any  such  association,  for  the
  purposes   of   obtaining   greater   economy   and  efficiency  in  the
  administration of fire district affairs.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 178-C - Expenses of Fire District Officers, Officials and Employees.

§  178-c. Expenses of fire district officers, officials and employees.
  When incurred by the authority of the board of fire  commissioners,  the
  actual  and  necessary  expenses,  including expenses for travel, of all
  fire district officers and paid employees of the fire district,  and  of
  all  paid  and  volunteer officers of the fire district fire department,
  incurred and paid by any such fire district officer,  paid  employee  or
  fire  department  officer  in  executing  the  duties  of  his office or
  position  shall  be  a  fire  district  charge.  The   board   of   fire
  commissioners of any fire district, in lieu of auditing and allowing the
  claim  of  a  fire  district  officer,  paid employee or fire department
  officer for actual and necessary expenses for travel, may  determine  by
  resolution to allow and pay such fire district officer, paid employee or
  fire  department  officer  a reasonable mileage allowance for the use of
  his own automobile for each mile actually and  necessarily  traveled  by
  him  in  executing  the duties of his office or position. In determining
  the amount of such  allowance,  the  board  of  fire  commissioners  may
  consider  the  cost  of  gasoline,  but in no event shall such allowance
  exceed  the  standard  mileage  allowance  for  business-related  travel
  adopted or prescribed for federal income tax purposes. The provisions of
  this  section  shall  not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede any of
  the provisions of section one hundred seventy-eight-a  of  this  article
  and  sections seventy-two-g and seventy-seven-b of the general municipal
  law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 178-D - Costs, Expenses and Damages a Fire District Charge in Certain Cases.

§ 178-d. Costs, expenses and damages a fire district charge in certain
  cases.  Whenever  the  fire  district  commissioners  or  board  of fire
  commissioners of any fire district, or any fire district officers,  have
  been or shall be instructed by a resolution adopted at a regular special
  meeting  of the board of fire commissioners to defend any action brought
  against them, or to bring or defend an action  or  proceeding  affecting
  any  district property or claim of the district, or involving its rights
  or interests, or to continue any such action or defense, all their costs
  and reasonable expenses, as well  as  all  costs  and  damages  adjudged
  against  them,  shall  be a district charge and shall be levied upon the
  taxable property of such district in the same manner  as  moneys  raised
  for   the   support   of  such  district.  Whenever  any  fire  district
  commissioner or  fire  district  officer  shall  defend  any  action  or
  proceeding,  other than a criminal proceeding, hereafter brought against
  him, arising out of the exercise of his powers or the performance of his
  duties,  provided  such  commissioner  or  officer  was  acting  in  the
  discharge  of  his  duties  and within the scope of his authority at the
  time damages were sustained, all his reasonable costs and  expenses,  as
  well  as all costs and damages adjudged against him, shall be a district
  charge and shall be levied upon the taxable property of such district in
  the same manner as money  raised  for  the  support  of  such  district,
  provided  (a)  such  fire district commissioner or fire district officer
  shall  notify  the  board  of  fire  commissioners  in  writing  of  the
  commencement  of such action or proceedings against him within five days
  after  service  of  process  upon  him;  and  (b)  the  board  of   fire
  commissioners  shall, at any time during the ten days next following the
  notice to them of the commencement of such action or  proceedings,  have
  the  right  to designate and appoint the legal counsel to represent such
  fire district commissioner or fire district officer in  such  action  or
  proceedings  against  him,  in  the  absence  of  which  designation and
  appointment within the time specified such fire district commissioner or
  fire district officer may select his own legal counsel.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 180 - Actions and Proceedings Against Fire Districts.

§ 180. Actions and proceedings against fire districts. No action shall
  be  maintained against a fire district upon or arising out of a contract
  entered into by the fire district, unless the same  shall  be  commenced
  within  eighteen  months  after  the  cause of action thereof shall have
  accrued, nor unless a written verified claim shall have been filed  with
  the  fire district secretary within six months after the cause of action
  shall have accrued, but no such action shall be brought  upon  any  such
  claim until forty days have elapsed after the filing of the claim in the
  office of the fire district secretary.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 181-B - Independent Audit of Fire Districts.

§  181-b.  Independent audit of fire districts. 1. The commissioner of
  each fire district with revenues of four  hundred  thousand  dollars  or
  more  shall  obtain  an  annual  audit  of its records by an independent
  certified public accountant or an  independent  public  accountant.  The
  report  of  such  annual  audit  shall be presented to the fire district
  board of fire commissioners by such accountant. Such fire district audit
  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  the  district's   financial
  conditions  and resources and such other things as the state comptroller
  may designate. A copy of the audit report  in  form  prescribed  by  the
  state comptroller and certified by the accountant, shall be furnished to
  the  commissioners, the town boards served by the district and the state
  comptroller within one hundred eighty days  following  the  end  of  the
  fiscal year audited.
2.  The  commissioner of each fire district with revenues of less than
  four hundred thousand dollars  shall  report  the  district's  financial
  conditions  and resources and such other things as the state comptroller
  may designate on a form prescribed by him or her. A copy of such  report
  shall  be issued to the state comptroller within one hundred eighty days
  following the  end  of  the  fiscal  year.  The  state  comptroller  may
  designate an amount below which no report shall be required.
3.  On  or after January first, two thousand seven, all fire districts
  subject to the provisions of  subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall
  utilize  a competitive request for proposal process when contracting for
  such annual audit. In addition, no audit engagement shall be for a  term
  longer  than  five consecutive years; provided, however, that nothing in
  this subdivision shall preclude a  district,  in  its  discretion,  from
  permitting  an independent certified public accountant or an independent
  public accountant engaged under an existing contract for  such  services
  to  (i) submit a proposal for such services in response to a request for
  competitive proposals, or (ii) be awarded a  contract  to  provide  such
  services under a request for proposal process.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph one of paragraph (b)
  of subdivision four of section thirty-five of the general municipal law,
  each  fire  district  shall  (i)  prepare  a  corrective  action plan in
  response to any findings contained in the annual external  audit  report
  or  management  letter,  or  any  final audit report issued by the state
  comptroller, within ninety days of receipt of such report or letter, and
  (ii) to the extent practicable, begin implementation of such  corrective
  action plan no later than the end of the next fiscal year.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 184-A - Contract for Water Supply Outside of Fire Districts.

§ 184-a. Contract for water supply outside of fire districts. The town
  board of any town, on behalf of a fire protection district or fire alarm
  district  situated therein, or on behalf of the area of the town outside
  of any village, fire district, fire protection district  or  fire  alarm
  district,  which  area  is  hereinafter  referred to as the "unprotected
  area", may contract for a  supply  of  water  and  for  the  furnishing,
  erection,  maintenance, care and replacement of fire hydrants, including
  the erection and maintenance of markers therefor,  and  the  removal  of
  snow  and  ice to provide access thereto, for fire purposes for a period
  not exceeding five years.
Before a contract shall be entered  into  pursuant  to  the  authority
  given in this section, the town board shall hold a public hearing in the
  district  or  unprotected area or at such other place within the town as
  the town board shall designate. Notice of the hearing shall be published
  at least once in at least one newspaper having  general  circulation  in
  the district or unprotected area, the first publication thereof to be at
  least  ten  days  prior to the day specified for the hearing. The notice
  shall specify the time when and place where the hearing  will  be  held,
  and shall describe in general terms the proposed contract. The amount of
  any contract that may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of this
  section  together  with  all  other  expenses  necessarily  incurred  or
  occasioned thereby, shall be assessed and levied upon the  taxable  real
  property  in  the district or unprotected area and collected in the same
  manner, at the same time and by the same  officers  as  town  taxes  are
  assessed,  levied  and collected and, when collected, the amount thereof
  shall be paid to the supervisor of the town. The supervisor shall pay to
  the person, company or corporation entitled thereto the amount specified
  in the contract.
If a fire protection district or fire alarm district shall be situated
  partly in each of two or more towns any action which would be  taken  by
  the town board in the case of a district situated in only one town shall
  be  taken  by  the  town boards of the several towns acting jointly by a
  majority vote of the members of each of such town boards, and the notice
  of public hearing required by this section shall be given  by  the  town
  clerks of the several towns acting jointly.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 188 - Use of Surplus Town Moneys for Purchase of Fire Apparatus for Use in Town Fire Districts.

§  188.  Use of surplus town moneys for purchase of fire apparatus for
  use in town fire districts. The town board in a town  in  which  a  town
  fire district has been established pursuant to the provisions of chapter
  two  hundred  and twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixteen may
  authorize the expenditure of surplus moneys of the town for the purchase
  of apparatus for the extinguishment and the prevention of fires in  such
  town fire district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 189 - Fire Inspection of Property in Contract Areas.

§  189.  Fire  inspection  of  property  in  contract areas. The chief
  officer of the fire department or fire company which is to furnish  fire
  protection  service  in  a  fire  district,  fire alarm district or fire
  protection district under a contract for fire  protection  entered  into
  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  subdivision twenty-two of section one
  hundred seventy-six, section one hundred  eighty-three  or  section  one
  hundred  eighty-four of this chapter may inspect (1) any public building
  and (2) with the consent of the  owner,  any  privately-owned  building,
  located within the fire district, fire alarm district or fire protection
  district  or  the  portion  thereof  required to be protected under such
  contract, for fire hazards, or such  chief  officer  may  delegate  such
  power  of  inspection  to  an  officer  or  member of such department or
  company.
The term "building," as used  in  this  section  does  not  include  a
  multiple  dwelling  which  may  be  inspected by such fire department or
  company under and pursuant to the  provisions  of  subdivision  four  of
  section three hundred three of the multiple residence law.
The  failure  of  any  such officer or member to discover and properly
  report any such fire hazards or  his  or  her  neglect  or  omission  to
  perform  such  duties  shall  not  subject  him  or her, his or her fire
  department, fire company, or the city, village, fire district or town in
  which or of which he or she is a  firefighter  to  any  civil  or  other
  liability.  Any  such fire officer or member shall not be liable civilly
  for any act or acts  done  by  him  or  her  as  a  firefighter  in  the
  performance of such duties, except for wilful negligence or malfeasance,
  but  the  provisions  of  this  section shall not relieve any such city,
  village, fire district, town, or fire company from  liability,  if  any,
  for  the  negligent  or  wrongful  acts  of the officer or member in the
  actual performance of such duty.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-B - Sale of Firehouse, Land and Apparatus.

§  189-b. Sale of firehouse, land and apparatus. The board of trustees
  of a village or the  commissioners  of  a  fire  district,  all  of  the
  territory  of  which  is  embraced within the boundaries of a joint fire
  district established or extended pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  article, may by resolution authorize the sale or transfer of a firehouse
  (including  the  plot  of land on which the building or fire district is
  situated), fire apparatus and fire equipment owned by such village or by
  such  fire  district  to  said  joint  fire  district  with  or  without
  consideration  and,  upon  such terms and conditions as to such board of
  trustees or board of commissioners may deem fitting and proper.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-D - Establishment of District.

§  189-d. Establishment of district. The clerk of such town or village
  designated  by  the  town  and  village  boards  participating  in   the
  determination to establish or extend any joint fire district pursuant to
  this  article  shall,  within  ten  days,  cause a certified copy of the
  determination establishing or extending the district to be filed in  the
  state  department  of  audit and control at Albany, New York, and shall,
  within ten days, cause a certified copy  of  such  determination  to  be
  recorded  in  the  office  of  the county clerk, and when so recorded it
  shall be presumptive evidence of the  regularity  and  validity  of  the
  creation  of  the  district  and  of  the  acts  of such boards relating
  thereto. A review of  such  determination  may  be  had  in  the  manner
  provided  in  section  one hundred seventy-three of this chapter, except
  that the undertaking for costs and expenses shall run to such  town  and
  village and apply to the costs and expenses of each.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-F - Powers of Board of Commissioners.

§  189-f. Powers of board of commissioners. The board of commissioners
  shall have and exercise, with respect to such district,  the  applicable
  powers  and  duties  of  a  board  of  fire  district  commissioners  as
  prescribed by the town law, with respect to similar functions of a  fire
  district  in  a town and all of the provisions of article eleven of this
  chapter shall be applicable to a joint fire district created pursuant to
  this  article.  Such  powers  and  duties  of  the  board  of   district
  commissioners are subject to the following restriction:
No real property or easement therein shall be acquired by the board of
  commissioners  without  the  approval of the village board or boards and
  the town board or boards of each village or town in which any portion of
  the district is situated. But this restriction shall not  apply  if,  at
  the  meeting  for  the  establishment  of  any  such  district hereafter
  established, a resolution to that effect is adopted in the  same  manner
  as the resolution for the establishment of the district is adopted.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-G - Appointment of District Treasurer.

§  189-g.  Appointment  of  district  treasurer.  The  board  of  fire
  commissioners shall appoint to serve during  its  pleasure,  a  district
  treasurer,  who  shall  receive and have the custody of the funds of the
  district and shall disburse the same for the purposes herein  authorized
  on  the  order  of  the  board  of fire commissioners. The board of fire
  commissioners also shall appoint a district secretary,  who  shall  have
  the  custody  of  all the records, books and papers of the district. The
  secretary shall attend all meetings of the board of  fire  commissioners
  and  act  as clerk thereof, shall keep a complete and accurate record of
  the proceedings of each  meeting;  and  shall  have  and  exercise  such
  additional  duties  as the board of fire commissioners may determine not
  inconsistent with law.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-I - Fire Protection.

§  189-i.  Fire  protection.  The  board  of  fire commissioners shall
  provide fire protection throughout the  entire  district  and  for  that
  purpose  may  accept  the  services  of any volunteer fire department or
  company  organized  and  operating  within  the  village,  or   if   the
  commissioners  are  unable  to provide such fire protection by volunteer
  services, it may employ and fix the compensation of such firefighters as
  may be necessary to provide such protection. Moneys,  if  any,  paid  to
  firefighters  shall  be  deemed  a  part  of the cost of maintenance and
  operation of the district.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 12 - District and Special Improvements › 190 - Establishment or Extension of Improvement Districts.

§  190.  Establishment  or  extension of improvement districts. Upon a
  petition as hereinafter  provided,  the  town  board  of  any  town  may
  establish or extend in said town a sewer, drainage, water, water quality
  treatment,  park,  public parking, lighting, snow removal, water supply,
  sidewalk, a fallout shelter district or  refuse  and  garbage  district,
  aquatic   growth   control   district,   ambulance  district,  watershed
  protection improvement district, and  in  any  town  bordering  upon  or
  containing  within  its boundaries any navigable waters of this state, a
  harbor improvement district, a public dock district,  or  beach  erosion
  control  district, and provide improvements or services, or both, in any
  such district, wholly at the expense  of  the  district;  but  no  water
  supply  district  shall  be  established  or  extended  to include lands
  situate within the boundaries of a  water  district.  No  such  district
  shall be established or extended in a city or in an incorporated village
  provided,  however,  that such a district may be established or extended
  wholly or partly within  an  incorporated  village  on  consent  of  the
  village  expressed in a local law, ordinance or resolution, subject to a
  referendum on petition under section twenty-four of the  municipal  home
  rule  law  or  a permissive referendum under article nine of the village
  law, as the case may be, and except, in the  case  of  a  water  quality
  treatment  district, on consent of a village expressed in a local law or
  by  resolution  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  not  subject  to  any
  referendum.