2023 New York Laws › CNT - County › Article 5 - General Powers of Board of Supervisors › 225-A - Fire Training and Mutual Aid Programs.

§ 225-a. Fire training and mutual aid programs. 1. In order to develop
  and maintain programs for fire training, fire service-related activities
  and  mutual  aid  in  cases  of  fire and other emergencies in which the
  services of firefighters would be used and to cooperate with the  office
  of fire prevention and control in furthering such programs, the board of
  supervisors  of  any  county may create a county fire advisory board and
  may establish the office of county fire coordinator.
2. A county fire advisory board shall consist of not  less  than  five
  nor more than twenty-one members, each of whom shall be appointed by the
  board  of supervisors for a term of not to exceed one year, two years or
  three years. Such terms of office need not be the same for all  members.
  It  shall be the duty of such board to cooperate with the office of fire
  prevention and control in relation to such programs for  fire  training,
  fire  service-related  activities  and mutual aid; to act as an advisory
  body to the board of supervisors and to the county fire coordinator,  if
  any,  in  connection  with the county participation in such programs for
  fire training, fire service-related activities and  mutual  aid  and  in
  connection  with  the  county  establishment and maintenance of a county
  fire training school and mutual aid programs in cases of fire and  other
  emergencies  in  which  the  services  of firefighters would be used; to
  perform such other duties as the board of supervisors may  prescribe  in
  relation  to  fire  training, fire service-related activities and mutual
  aid in cases of fire and other emergencies  in  which  the  services  of
  firefighters  would  be  used. The members of such board shall be county
  officers, and shall serve without compensation.
3. If the office of county fire coordinator is created in any  county,
  the   board   of   supervisors  thereof  shall  appoint  a  county  fire
  coordinator. It shall be his  or  her  duty  to  administer  the  county
  programs  for  fire  training  and mutual aid in cases of fire and other
  emergencies in which the services of firefighters would be used; to  act
  as  a  liaison  officer  between the board of supervisors and the county
  fire advisory board and the fire fighting forces in the county  and  the
  officers  and  governing  boards  or bodies thereof; and to perform such
  other duties as the board of supervisors  shall  prescribe.  The  county
  fire  coordinator shall be a county officer and the amount of his or her
  compensation, if any, shall be fixed by the board of supervisors.
4. A member of the board of supervisors, the county fire  coordinator,
  or a deputy county fire coordinator appointed pursuant to the provisions
  of  section  four  hundred  one  of  this chapter, may be appointed as a
  member  of  the  county  fire  advisory  board,  but  shall  receive  no
  additional  compensation  for  services  performed  as  a member of such
  advisory board.
5. Where, pursuant to section one hundred eighty-four of the town law,
  a town has contracted with an incorporated fire company to furnish  fire
  protection  within a fire protection district, the respective county may
  acquire by gift or purchase suitable apparatus and appliances for use in
  such district and in conjunction with the county mutual aid program  and
  may   contract  with  said  incorporated  fire  company  for  operation,
  maintenance,  and  repair  of  same  and  for  the  furnishing  of  fire
  protection in such district.