STATE OF NEW YORK
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7947
IN SENATE
March 12, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- (at request of the Division of Homeland
Security and Emergency Services) -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to training of
city firefighters promoted to a first-line supervisor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 209-x of the general municipal law, as added by
2 chapter 667 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 209-x. Training of certain paid city firemen promoted to a first-
4 line supervisory position.
5 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law
6 or charter to the contrary, any officer of a paid fire department
7 promoted to a first-line supervisory position after passing a civil
8 service examination shall, on and after April first, nineteen hundred
9 eighty-five, attend a training program, approved by the state fire
10 administrator, not to exceed four weeks, in fire supervision [at the New
11 York city fire academy] in accordance with rules and regulations promul-
12 gated pursuant to article six-C of the executive law.
13 2. The expenses incurred in furnishing such program in fire super-
14 vision to an officer referred to in subdivision one hereof[, including
15 the furnishing of meals and lodging at such academy,] shall be paid by
16 the city of New York for first-line supervisor training, including the
17 furnishing of meals and lodging at the New York city fire academy.
18 Reasonable travel expenses incurred by said officer shall also be paid
19 by said city but only if such travel expense would not otherwise be
20 incurred by said officer in the regular course of this employment.
21 3. The expenses incurred by the city of New York pursuant to this
22 section shall be reimbursed by the state, except that expenses incurred
23 by such city in excess of one million dollars and directly attributable
24 to training any officers of such city's fire department shall not be
25 subject to state reimbursement.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14358-01-8
