Authorizes the date of elections of officers in the fire department in the village of Croton-on-Hudson in the county of Westchester to vary from other village fire elections.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7837
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 11, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to certain elections for
fire companies in Croton-on-Hudson
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 10-1010 of the village law, as amended by chapter
2 481 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 10-1010 Election of company officers and delegates. Each of the
4 several companies whose members constitute the fire department of the
5 village shall hold an annual meeting on the first Tuesday in April in
6 each year, except those fire companies constituting the fire department
7 of the village of Fishkill, Dutchess county, and the village of Croton-
8 on-Hudson, Westchester county, which shall hold such annual meetings on
9 the first Tuesday in December of each year. At such meeting the members
10 of each company shall elect by ballot from their own number a captain
11 and a lieutenant, and such further officers if any as may be provided
12 for in the by-laws of the company, who must be approved by the board of
13 fire commissioners, one warden and one delegate to the general conven-
14 tion of the fire department. The terms of office of the captain and
15 lieutenant and such further officers if any, as are elected as herein
16 provided, shall be one year, the wardens two years, and the delegates
17 three years, respectively, and any vacancies occurring in any such
18 offices shall be filled by election in like manner. At the first annual
19 meeting after this act takes effect two wardens and three delegates
20 shall be elected, the wardens to serve for one and two years, respec-
21 tively, and the delegates for one, two and three years, respectively.
22 Any person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be
23 eligible for election to the office of captain, lieutenant, warden,
24 delegate and any other offices provided for in the by-laws of the compa-
25 ny. Any captain, lieutenant, warden, delegate or other officer of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 company who is convicted of arson in any degree during [his] their term
2 of office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.
3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 10-1012 of the village law, as amended
4 by chapter 380 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
5 1. The chief and the first and second assistant chiefs and such addi-
6 tional assistant chiefs, if any, as may be provided for in the by-laws
7 of the fire department shall each be a member thereof and a resident of
8 the state of New York; provided, however, that fire department officers
9 of the fire department of the village of Hancock, Delaware county, need
10 not be residents of the state of New York. In addition, the board of
11 trustees, or the board of fire commissioners subject to the approval of
12 the board of trustees, may, by resolution, require that any or all of
13 such fire department officers shall be residents of the village. The
14 delegates elected to the general convention of the fire department shall
15 meet at the council room thereof on the Thursday following the first
16 Tuesday in April, except the elected delegates of the fire department of
17 the village of Fishkill, Dutchess county, which shall meet on the first
18 Tuesday in December, and nominate a person for each of such offices and
19 except the elected delegates of the fire department of the village of
20 Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester county, which shall meet on the Thursday
21 following the first Tuesday in December; but the fire commissioners of
22 any village may adopt a rule requiring all such nominations to be made
23 on the day of the meeting by a vote of the duly qualified members of the
24 department, in which case the meeting of the delegates in general
25 convention, as provided for in this section, shall be dispensed with.
26 The person acting as secretary of such convention shall forthwith file
27 in the office of the village clerk a certificate of such nominations.
28 The board of fire commissioners at its next meeting shall consider the
29 nominations and appoint such persons to the offices to which they are
30 respectively nominated or, if a nomination is not approved the board
31 shall reconvene the general convention, which shall submit a new nomi-
32 nation to take the place of any nomination not approved, which procedure
33 shall continue until a full set of officers is approved. A person who
34 has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be eligible for
35 nomination, election or appointment to the office of chief or assistant
36 chief. Any fire chief or assistant chief who is convicted of arson in
37 any degree during [his] their term of office shall be disqualified from
38 completing such term of office.
39 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
