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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6619
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 1, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the village law, in relation to exempting fire depart-
          ment officers of the Village of Hancock fire  department  from  a  New
          York state residency requirement

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 10-1012 of  the  village  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  481  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The chief and the first and second assistant chiefs and such  addi-
     5  tional  assistant  chiefs, if any, as may be provided for in the by-laws
     6  of the fire department shall each be a member thereof and a resident  of
     7  the  state of New York; provided, however, that fire department officers
     8  of the fire department of the village of Hancock, Delaware county,  need
     9  not  be  residents  of  the state of New York. In addition, the board of
    10  trustees, or the board of fire commissioners subject to the approval  of
    11  the  board  of  trustees, may, by resolution, require that any or all of
    12  such fire department officers shall be residents  of  the  village.  The
    13  delegates elected to the general convention of the fire department shall
    14  meet  at  the  council  room thereof on the Thursday following the first
    15  Tuesday in April, except the elected delegates of the fire department of
    16  the village of Fishkill, Dutchess county, which shall meet on the  first
    17  Tuesday in December, and nominate a person for each of such offices; but
    18  the  fire  commissioners  of  any village may adopt a rule requiring all
    19  such nominations to be made on the day of the meeting by a vote  of  the
    20  duly  qualified  members of the department, in which case the meeting of
    21  the delegates in general convention, as provided for  in  this  section,
    22  shall  be dispensed with. The person acting as secretary of such conven-
    23  tion shall forthwith file in the office of the village clerk  a  certif-
    24  icate  of  such nominations. The board of fire commissioners at its next
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02051-01-3
        S. 6619                             2
 
     1  meeting shall consider the nominations and appoint such persons  to  the
     2  offices  to which they are respectively nominated or, if a nomination is
     3  not approved the board shall reconvene  the  general  convention,  which
     4  shall  submit  a  new nomination to take the place of any nomination not
     5  approved, which procedure shall continue until a full set of officers is
     6  approved. A person who has been convicted of arson in any  degree  shall
     7  not be eligible for nomination, election or appointment to the office of
     8  chief  or  assistant  chief.  Any  fire  chief or assistant chief who is
     9  convicted of arson in any degree during his  term  of  office  shall  be
    10  disqualified from completing such term of office.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.