STATE OF NEW YORK
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5703
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 28, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to establishing an exemption
from the residency requirement for volunteer members of the Pocatello
fire district or the Washington Heights fire district, in the county
of Orange
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 176-b of the town law, as sepa-
2 rately amended by chapters 358, 378, 380 and 645 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 7. The membership of any volunteer firefighter shall not be continued
5 pursuant to subdivision five of this section, and persons shall not be
6 elected to membership pursuant to subdivision six of this section, if,
7 by so doing, the percentage of such non-resident members in the fire
8 company would exceed forty-five per centum of the actual membership of
9 the fire company, provided however, that the provisions of this subdivi-
10 sion shall not apply to the memberships of the Shelter Island Heights
11 fire district, the Cherry Grove fire district, the Fire Island Pines
12 fire district, the Davis Park fire department, and the Cold Spring
13 Harbor fire district in Suffolk county, the New Hampton fire district,
14 the Mechanicstown fire district, the Pocatello fire district, the Wash-
15 ington Heights fire district and the Good Will fire district in Orange
16 county, the Jericho fire district and the Westbury fire district in
17 Nassau county, the Orangeburg fire district in Rockland county, the
18 South Lockport Fire Company and the Terry's Corners volunteer fire
19 company in Niagara County, the Taunton fire district and the Onondaga
20 Hill fire department in Onondaga county, the Town of Batavia fire
21 department in Genesee County, the Schuyler Heights fire district and the
22 Slingerlands fire district I in Albany county, the town of Providence
23 fire district in Saratoga county, the River Road fire district, No. 3 in
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Erie county or the memberships of the Millwood fire district, the
2 Purchase Fire District, the North Castle South Fire District, No. 1 in
3 Westchester county, and the Thornwood fire company, No. 1 in Westchester
4 county.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
