Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2659
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. STEC, OBERACKER, ORTT, TEDISCO -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Local Government
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the establish-
ment of special districts for general ambulance services within the
Adirondack park
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision 1 of section
2 122-b of the general municipal law, paragraphs (d) and (f) as amended by
3 chapter 303 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph (e) as amended by section
4 2 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, are amended and a new
5 closing paragraph is added to read as follows:
6 (d) Establish a special district for the financing and operation of
7 general ambulance services as set forth by this section, whereby any
8 county, city, town or village, either wholly or partially within the
9 Adirondack park, acting individually, or jointly with any other county,
10 city, town and/or village, either wholly or partially within the Adiron-
11 dack park, through its governing body or bodies, following applicable
12 procedures as are required for the establishment of fire districts in
13 article eleven of the town law or following applicable procedures as are
14 required for the establishment of joint fire districts in article
15 eleven-A of the town law, with such special district being authorized by
16 this section to be established in all or any part of any such partic-
17 ipating county or counties, town or towns, city or cities and/or village
18 or villages;
19 (e) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
20 (b) [or], (c) or (d) of this subdivision;
21 [(e)] (f) A contract may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
22 this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the provisions
2 of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;
3 [(f)] (g) Consider prehospital emergency treatment as that care
4 provided by certified emergency medical technicians or certified
5 advanced emergency medical technicians certified pursuant to the
6 provisions of article thirty of the public health law.
7 Any county, city, town or village which establishes or participates in
8 a joint district pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subdivision shall
9 dissolve and abolish any preexisting local district serving the same
10 jurisdiction.
11 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the general
12 municipal law, as amended by chapter 303 of the laws of 1980, is amended
13 to read as follows:
14 [(e)] (f) No contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions
15 of this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid
16 squad of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the
17 provisions of section two hundred nine-b of [the general municipal law]
18 this chapter;
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
20 the amendments to paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the
21 general municipal law made by section one of this act shall be subject
22 to the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4
23 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, when upon such date the
24 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.
