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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7307
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 2, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN ACT to authorize the transfer of certain  funds  of  the  village  of
          Brockport,  allocated  for  fire protection and of unexpended cash and
          reserves of the Sweden Fire Protection District and the Clarkson  Fire

          Protection  District,  to  the  Brockport Fire District, following the
          formation of the Brockport Fire District and the  dissolution  of  the
          Sweden  Fire  Protection  District  and  the  Clarkson Fire Protection
          District
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     2  upon  the  dissolution  of  the  Sweden Fire Protection District and the
     3  Clarkson Fire Protection District encompassing the town  of  Sweden  and
     4  part of the town of Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, and subsequent to
     5  the  formation  of the Brockport Fire District by the town boards of the
     6  towns of Sweden and Clarkson and the board of trustees of the village of
     7  Brockport, the following shall occur, which are hereby declared to be in

     8  every respect in the public  interest  and  undertaken  solely  for  the
     9  provision  of  services  and  for  the  safety of the inhabitants of the
    10  Brockport fire district:
    11    (a) The town of Sweden and the town of  Clarkson,  on  behalf  of  the
    12  Sweden  Fire  Protection  District  and  the  Clarkson  Fire  Protection
    13  District, are hereby empowered to and shall  transfer  any  and  all  of
    14  their  unexpended  cash and reserve fire protection district funds allo-
    15  cated for fire protection within such fire protection districts, to  the
    16  Brockport  Fire  District,  provided however that any and all such unex-
    17  pended cash and reserve fire protection district funds shall be used  by
    18  the  Brockport Fire District, or any successor thereto, for the purposes
    19  and provision of services and for the safety of the inhabitants  of  the
    20  Brockport Fire District, as provided by law; and

    21    (b) The village of Brockport is hereby empowered to and shall transfer
    22  to the Brockport Fire District on or after July 1, 2012:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15424-02-2
        S. 7307                             2
 
     1    (i)  the unexpended portion of its 2012-2013 fiscal year budget desig-
     2  nated for fire protection.  The tax levy for fire protection  raised  by
     3  the  Village  of  Brockport  for the period July 1, 2012 to December 31,
     4  2012 being approximately $60,467.36; and
     5    (ii)  the  tax  levy raised by the Village of Brockport for the period
     6  June 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 designated  for  contribution  to  the

     7  fire protection reserve funds being approximately $19,369.56; and
     8    (iii)  any and all other cash and reserve accounts designated for fire
     9  protection, said reserve accounts shall include but not  be  limited  to
    10  any reserve accounts for purchase of fire apparatus, equipment, communi-
    11  cations  equipment  and/or  fire fighting and emergency vehicles, to the
    12  Brockport Fire District.
    13    All such transferred  funds  shall  be  used  by  the  Brockport  Fire
    14  District,  or  any  successor thereto, for the purposes and provision of
    15  services and for the safety of the inhabitants  of  the  Brockport  Fire
    16  District, as provided by law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.