New York General Municipal Law Article 10 - FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN

• 200 - Defining Qualifications of Exempt Volunteer Firemen.
  An exempt volunteer fireman is hereby declared to be a person who as a member of a volunteer fire company duly organized under the laws...
• 200-a - Volunteer Firemen Serving in More Than One Fire Company or Fire Department.
  When any person has served as a volunteer fireman as provided in section two hundred of this chapter, for less than five years, and while...
• 200-b - Leaves of Absence for Volunteer Firemen Entering the Armed Forces of the United States Prior to July First, Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Six.
  1. When, prior to July first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, a volunteer firefighter in good standing in the fire company or department of which he is...
• 200-c - Leaves of Absence for Volunteer Firemen Entering the Armed Forces of the United States on or After July First, Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Six.
  1. When, on or after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-six, a volunteer firefighter in good standing in the fire company of which he is a...
• 201 - Rights and Privileges of Exempt Volunteer Firemen.
  In case any city, town or village in this state shall organize a paid fire department and thereby deprive any volunteer fireman who has faithfully...
• 202 - Certificate to Be Issued to Exempt Volunteer Firemen.
  Any person described in sections two hundred or two hundred one of this chapter shall be entitled to a certificate from the company in which...
• 202-a - Recording Certificates of Exempt Volunteer Firemen.
  A certificate of honorable discharge of an exempt volunteer fireman, or a certificate issued to an exempt volunteer fireman under the provisions of section two...
• 203 - List of Exempt Volunteer Firemen to Be Filed.
  In case of a company disbanded by the organization of a paid department in lieu thereof, the officers of every volunteer fire, engine, hose and...
• 204 - Qualifications Necessary to Entitle to Certain Exemptions.
  No person who became a member of a volunteer fire organization within the state since the first day of January nineteen hundred and two, or...
• 204-a - Raising of Funds for Fire Company Purposes.
  1. Definitions. As used in this section: a. "Fire company" means: (1) A volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire district...
• 204-b - Youth Programs.
  1. Volunteer fire departments and fire companies may establish, operate and maintain youth programs to provide participants with the opportunity to become familiar with the...
• 204-c - Plan for Arson Investigation.
  The governing body of each county except a county contained wholly within a city, and the governing body of any city in which a county...
• 204-d - Duties of the Fire Chief.
  The fire chief of any fire department or company shall, in addition to any other duties assigned to him by law or contract, to the...
• 204-e - Unauthorized Destruction of Property.
  No individual or corporation having a possessory or proprietary interest in a building or motor vehicle within the meaning of section 150.05 of the penal...
• 204-f - Plan for Hazardous Materials Incidents Response.
  In accordance with rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to subdivision eight of section two hundred nine-e of this chapter, the governing body of a county,...
• 205 - Payments to Injured or Representatives of Deceased Volunteer Firemen.
  First. If an active member of a volunteer fire company in any city, incorporated village or in any fire district of a town outside of...
• 205-a - Additional Right of Action to Certain Injured or Representatives of Certain Deceased Firefighters.
  1. In addition to any other right of action or recovery under any other provision of law, in the event any accident, causing injury, death...
• 205-b - Relief of Volunteer Firefighters Engaged in the Performance of Duty As Such Firefighters From Civil Liability and Liability of Fire Districts for the
  acts of volunteer firefighters. Members of duly organized volunteer fire companies in this state shall not be liable civilly for any act or acts done...
• 205-c - Payments Pending Controversies Where Volunteer Firemen are Killed or Injured.
  In order to provide for the prompt payment of benefits under sections two hundred five and two hundred nine-a of this chapter, and under the...
• 205-Cc - Volunteer Firefighter Enhanced Cancer Disability Benefits.
  * A legally organized fire district, department or company shall provide and maintain for each eligible volunteer firefighter, an enhanced cancer disability benefit insurance program....
• 205-d - Relief From Civil Liability for Acts or Omissions by Fire Wardens in the City of New York.
  After being trained by a certified fire safety director, any person designated to serve as a fire warden or deputy fire warden in any structure...
• 205-e - Right of Action to Certain Injured or Representatives of Certain Deceased Police Officers.
  1. In addition to any other right of action or recovery under any other provision of law, in the event any accident, causing injury, death...
• 205-f - Removal of Civil Liability Barriers.
  1. (a) Liability protection. (1) A fire company or political subdivision as defined in section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, including a person...
• 205-g - Defense and Indemnification of Volunteer Firefighters.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Volunteer firefighter" means an active member of a fire company. b. "Fire company" means: (i) A fire company...
• 206 - Certificate to Policemen and Firemen; Free Transportation; Use of Telegraph Lines and Telephones.
  The mayor of each city of this state and the mayor of each incorporated village may issue, under the seal of his office, to each...
• 206-a - Penalty for Improper Use of Certificates.
  Every policeman or fireman who shall permit any other person to use the certificate issued to him as provided by the last section, or shall...
• 206-b - Exemption of Benefits Payable Under Blanket Accident Insurance Covering Volunteer Firemen.
  Not only shall the benefits payable or allowable under any blanket accident insurance policy or contract purchased (1) by a fire department pursuant to section...
• 207 - Hospitalization of Members of Fire Departments in Certain Cities.
  Paid members of the fire department of any city of this state having a population of one million or more who shall be injured while...
• 207-a - Payment of Salary, Medical and Hospital Expenses of Firemen With Injuries or Illness Incurred in Performance of Duties.
  1. Any paid fireman which term as used in this section shall mean any paid officer or member of an organized fire company or fire...
• 207-b - Additional Retirement Benefits for Certain Firemen in Cities.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Final compensation" means the average annual salary or wages for services as a fireman earned from the date...
• 207-c - Payment of Salary, Wages, Medical and Hospital Expenses of Policemen With Injuries or Illness Incurred in the Performance of Duties.
  * 1. Any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff or corrections officer of the sheriff's department of any county (hereinafter referred to as a "policeman") or any...
• 207-d - Additional Retirement Benefits for Certain Policemen in Cities and Certain Villages.
  1. As used in this section: a. "Final compensation" means the average annual salary or wages for services as a policeman earned from the date...
• 207-e - Minimum Retirement Benefits for Policemen in Cities and Who are Members of Police Pension or Retirement Systems Maintained by Such Cities.
  * 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or administrative code to the contrary, and in lieu of any lesser...
• 207-e*2 - Minimum Retirement Benefits for Firemen in Cities and Who are Members of Fire Department Pension or Retirement Systems Maintained by Such Cities.
  * 207-e. Minimum retirement benefits for firemen in cities and who are members of fire department pension or retirement systems maintained by such cities. 1....
• 207-f - Ordinary Death Benefits of Members of Fire Department Systems of Cities.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Member" means a contributor to the pension system of any city maintaining a fire department pension fund based...
• 207-g - Ordinary Death Benefits of Members of Police Retirement Systems.
  1. As used in this section: (a) "Member" means a contributor to the pension system of any city maintaining a police pension fund based upon...
• 207-h - Death Benefits of Members of Certain Fire Department Pension or Retirement Systems of Cities.
  * 1. As used in this section: (a) "Member" means any person included in the membership of a pension or retirement system maintained by a...
• 207-h*2 - Death Benefits of Members of Certain Police Pension Systems.
  * 207-h. Death benefits of members of certain police pension systems. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Member" means a contributor to a non-actuarial...
• 207-i - Temporary Supplemental Retirement Allowances for Certain Policemen.
  * Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or administrative code to the contrary, a supplemental retirement allowance shall be paid...
• 207-i*2 - Supplemental Retirement Allowances of Retired Firemen of Cities.
  * 207-i. Supplemental retirement allowances of retired firemen of cities. Nothing in any general, special or local law, administrative code, ordinance, rule or regulation or...
• 207-Ii - Payment of Supplemental Retirement Allowances of Retired Policemen and Firemen of Certain Cities.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, payment of all supplemental retirement allowances which, for the month of July, nineteen hundred eighty...
• 207-j - Supplemental Pension Allowances of Certain Retired Teachers of Cities.
  Nothing in any general, special or local law, administrative code, ordinance, rule or regulation or pension contract to the contrary notwithstanding a supplemental pension allowance...
• 207-k - Disabilities of Policemen and Firemen in Certain Cities.
  * Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of sections two...
• 207-k*2 - Disabilities of Policemen and Firemen in Certain Cities.
  * 207-k. Disabilities of policemen and firemen in certain cities. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to...
• 207-Kk - Disabilities of Firefighters in Certain Cities Caused by Cancer.
  * Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, any condition of impairment of health caused by (i) any condition of cancer affecting...
• 207-l - Temporary Supplemental Retirement Allowances for Certain Policemen in Towns and Villages.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, charter or administrative code to the contrary, a supplemental retirement allowance may be paid to...
• 207-n - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers' compensation...
• 207-o - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement.
  * Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers'...
• 207-o*2 - Disabilities of Members of the Uniformed Force of Correction Departments in Certain Cities.
  * 207-o. Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of correction departments in certain cities. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local...
• 207-p - Performance of Duty Disability Retirement; Police and Fire Department.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or administrative code to the contrary, any paid member of a fire department and/or a paid police department,...
• 207-q - Firefighters; Presumption in Certain Diseases.
  * Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law to the contrary, and for the purposes of this chapter,...
• 207-q*2 - Disabilities of Emergency Medical Technicians or Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians in Certain Cities.
  * 207-q. Disabilities of emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in certain cities. a. Disabilities of persons performing emergency medical services in certain...
• 208 - Members of Police Force to Have One Day Rest in Seven.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, every member of the police force in a city, county, town or village, except in case...
• 208-a - School Guards.
  The duly constituted authorities of any city, town, or village or any county police department or police district may designate, authorize and appoint such a...
• 208-b - Death Benefits for Beneficiaries of Certain Policemen and Firemen.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided, death benefit may be payable upon the death of a...
• 208-c - Death Benefits for Dependent Fathers or Dependent Mothers of Certain Policemen and Firemen.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided, any municipality, as enumerated in section two hundred eight-b of...
• 208-d - Extra Work by Members of Certain Police Forces.
  * Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof,...
• 208-d*2 - Compensation During Disability.
  * 208-d. Compensation during disability. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, any member of a police force in a village...
• 208-d*3 - Extra Work by Members of a Police Force in Cities.
  * 208-d. Extra work by members of a police force in cities. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule...
• 208-e - Extra Work by Members of Certain Police Forces.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof, any...
• 208-f - Special Accidental Death Benefit.
  a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the special accidental death benefit provided by this section shall be paid to the widow or widower or...
• 208-g - Community Activity by Members of a Police Force.
  The provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, including any rule or regulation of any...
• 208-h - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training and Retraining for Police Departments in Cities Having a Population of One Million or More
  1. For the purposes of this section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" shall have the same meaning as provided in subdivision six of section six hundred twenty-one of...
• 209 - Outside Service by Local Fire Departments, Companies, Ambulance Districts and Airport Crash-Fire-Rescue Units.
  1. The fire department of any city, village or fire district, the fire companies serving territory outside of villages and fire districts in any town...
• 209-a - Relations With Other States and the Dominion of Canada.
  1. Whenever a volunteer fire company or department of this state shall answer a call for assistance from any political subdivision or territory of another...
• 209-Aa - Paid Leave for Disaster Service Volunteers.
  * 1. Members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York who are certified disaster service volunteers of the...
• 209-Aa*2 - Appointment of Private College Campus Security Officers At Independent Non-Profit Colleges.
  * 209-aa. Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the chief...
• 209-b - Emergency Rescue and First Aid Squads.
  1. Emergencies. a. The authorities having control of fire departments and fire companies may organize within such departments or companies emergency rescue and first aid...
• 209-Bb - Specialized Teams; Volunteer Wilderness/inland Search and Rescue Teams.
  1. a. By resolution, after a public hearing the governing body of each county, city and town is authorized, respectively, to establish, maintain and supervise...
• 209-c - Fire Police Squads of Fire Departments and Fire Companies.
  The authorities having control of fire departments and fire companies may organize within such departments or companies fire police squads composed of volunteer firemen who...
• 209-Cc - Notification of Presence of Wild Animals and Dangerous Dogs.
  1. The knowledge of the presence of dangerous wild animals, and dangerous dogs, in the context of emergency services responses, is necessary to protect public...
• 209-d - Contracts for Outside Service by Volunteer Fire Departments and Companies.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contract shall be made by a municipality or fire district whereby the services of a volunteer fire department...
• 209-Dd - Discovery of Unlawful Drug Laboratory.
  All emergency services personnel, as defined in section two hundred nine-cc of this article, shall be provided with information on recognizing the signs of an...
• 209-e - Fire Mobilization and Mutual Aid Plan.
  1. Plan. The state fire administrator shall prepare a state fire mobilization and mutual aid plan which may provide for the establishment of fire mobilization...
• 209-Ee - Adoption of a Code of Ethics and Disclosure of Interests by Fire Companies.
  1. Notwithstanding any provision of general, special or local law to the contrary, every fire company that contracts with or is under the control of...
• 209-f - Outside Service by Local Police Forces; Mobilization by Governor; Powers of Sheriffs.
  1. Whenever the public interest requires it, the governor may, in his discretion, authorize and direct the superintendent of state police, the sheriff of a...
• 209-Ff - Provisions Relating to Certain Accidental Disability Benefits.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions a and b of section five hundred seven of the retirement and social security law, a police/fire member in...
• 209-g - Liability for Outside Aid.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, any county, city, town, village or fire district requesting fire aid pursuant to section...
• 209-i - Emergency Service by Volunteer Firemen.
  1. Whenever a volunteer fireman is within this state, but outside the area regularly served by the fire company or fire department of which he...
• 209-j - Mutual Aid Programs in Counties.
  The board of supervisors in any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem necessary and proper for the establishment and maintenance...
• 209-l - Removal of Volunteer Officers and Volunteer Members of Fire Departments.
  1. The authorities having control of fire departments of cities, towns, villages and fire districts may make regulations governing the removal of volunteer officers and...
• 209-m - Outside Service by Local Police; Civil Disturbance Control.
  1. As used in this section: a. The term "local government" shall mean a county, a city, a town, or a village, as the case...
• 209-p - Relay of Fire and Emergency Calls.
  The fire department of any city may accept any calls for aid in cases of fire or other emergencies made to its fire headquarters from...
• 209-q - Permanent Appointment of Police Officers; Completion of Training Program.
  1. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after July first, nineteen hundred...
• 209-r - Police Protection.
  Notwithstanding any local or special law or charter provision, a city, town or village shall, irrespective of the boundaries of a privately owned housing development,...
• 209-s - Contracts Between Municipalities and Fire Districts for Joint Fire Training Centers.
  The local governing bodies of the several cities, towns, villages and fire districts of the state, are hereby authorized on behalf of their respective cities,...
• 209-t - Contracts for Joint Fire Alarm Systems.
  The local governing bodies of the several villages and fire districts of the state are hereby authorized on behalf of their respective villages and fire...
• 209-u - Notification of Presence of Hazardous Materials.
  1. The knowledge of the presence of hazardous materials is vital to meeting the contingencies of a fire or other emergency. It is the purpose...
• 209-v - Employment of Retired Persons As Special Patrolmen for Publicly Owned Property.
  1. Notwithstanding any general, local or special law or charter provision, the governing board of any political subdivision may authorize any police or law enforcement...
• 209-w - Permanent Appointment of Fire Fighters; Completion of Training Program.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special, or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after the effective date of regulations...
• 209-x - Training of Certain Paid City Firemen Promoted to a First-Line Supervisory Position.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, any officer of a paid fire department promoted to...
• 209-y - Establishment of Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Teams.
  1. By resolution, the governing body of each county is authorized to establish a hazardous materials emergency response team. Such teams shall be coordinated in...
• 209-z - Annual Independent Audits.
  1. Notwithstanding any provision of general or special law to the contrary, any fire company with revenues of three hundred thousand dollars, or such lesser...

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