Relates to the disposition of foreign fire insurance premium taxes received by the Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Whitehall, New York.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4160--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend chapter 491 of the laws of 2018 relating to incorporat-
ing the Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of
Whitehall, New York and providing for its powers and duties, in
relation to the disposition of foreign fire insurance premium taxes
received by such corporation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7 of chapter 491 of the laws of 2018 relating to
2 incorporating the Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association
3 of Whitehall, New York and providing for its powers and duties, is
4 amended to read as follows:
5 § 7. Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. Such
6 corporation shall collect and there shall be paid to it all taxes
7 imposed by [article 91] section 9104 of the insurance law for fire
8 department use and benefit, upon premiums for insurance against loss or
9 damage by fire covering property situated in the Whitehall fire
10 protection district, in the town of Whitehall and county of Washington,
11 or within any duly organized territory in which the Whitehall Volunteer
12 Fire Company, Inc. is or may be obligated to render fire protection. The
13 officer of said corporation designated by its by-laws to collect and
14 receive the aforesaid tax shall have all the powers and be subject to
15 all the provisions of the insurance law, relating to treasurers of fire
16 departments. Such corporation shall also be entitled to receive a share
17 of the tax imposed by [article 91] section 9105 of the insurance law,
18 based upon the business written in the territory with respect to which
19 it is entitled to collect and receive the tax under [article 91] section
20 9104 of the insurance law. [Such taxes shall only be used for the care
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and relief of disabled or indigent volunteer and exempt volunteer fire-
2 fighters and their families.] Such taxes shall only be used by the
3 corporation in furtherance of its purposes as set forth in section three
4 of this act.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
