Bill Text: NY A08057 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the qualifications of fire chiefs in any fire department, fire district or fire protection district that employs fewer than five paid firefighters.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - signed chap.406 [A08057 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8057
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 25, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the minimum quali-
          fications  to  serve  as  a  fire  chief  in any fire department, fire
          district or fire protection district that employs  one  or  more  paid
          firefighters
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 58-a of the civil service law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  1 of part A of chapter 101 of the laws of 2013, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    6. The provisions of this section shall [not]  apply  to  appointments
     5  made by any county, city, except cities with a population of one million
     6  or  more,  town,  village  or fire district [which employs five or fewer
     7  fire fighters].
     8    § 2. Section 58-a of the civil service law is amended by adding a  new
     9  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    10    7.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of this law or any general,
    11  special or local law to the contrary, no person shall  be  eligible  for
    12  provisional  or  permanent  appointment as a fire chief other than those
    13  chiefs employed by a fire department of cities with a population of  one
    14  million or more unless he or she shall:
    15    (a)  satisfy the basic requirements for education, health and physical
    16  fitness established by the state fire administrator pursuant to  section
    17  one hundred fifty-eight of the executive law;
    18    (b) has successfully completed training and education courses of mini-
    19  mum  contact  hour criteria approved by the state fire administrator and
    20  received certification for supervisory level 1 or higher pursuant to  19
    21  NYCRR 427.9; and
    22    (c)  has been employed as a lieutenant or higher rank for five or more
    23  years.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have  become  a  law  and shall apply to any appointment as a fire chief
    26  established on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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