Bill Text: NY A08559 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8559 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Legalizes the dissolution of the offices of fire commissioners by the town of Deposit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-14 - substituted by s6113a [A08559 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08559-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8559--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    August 31, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Govern-
         ments in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  legalize, validate, ratify and confirm the abolition of the
         offices of fire commissioners by the town of Deposit, in the county of
         Delaware; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
         tion thereof
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Notwithstanding any provision of the town law or insurance
    2  law, all proceedings and actions taken by the town  of  Deposit  in  the
    3  county  of Delaware, in relation to the abolition of the offices of fire
    4  commissioners and transfer of their functions to the town board and town
    5  supervisor, including executing contracts for  fire  protection,  redis-
    6  tributing foreign fire insurance premium tax funds and the establishment
    7  of  any  account of funds from real property taxes of the fire district,
    8  are hereby legalized, validated, ratified and confirmed.
    9    S 2. Notwithstanding the defects described in section one of this act,
   10  the town board of the town of Deposit is hereby authorized  to  initiate
   11  proceedings  pursuant  to  article  17-A of the general municipal law to
   12  dissolve the offices of fire commissioners as if the town board were the
   13  governing body of the offices of fire commissioners.
   14    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
   15  deemed repealed on July 1, 2013.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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