New York Town Law Article 11 - FIRE, FIRE ALARM AND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS

• 170 - Establishment and Extension of Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts.
  1. The town board of any town or, if the proposed district or extension includes territory in more than one town, the town boards of...
• 171 - Petition and Hearing.
  1. A petition to establish or extend a fire, fire alarm or fire protection district pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred seventy of...
• 172-a - Alteration of Boundaries of Fire Districts.
  1. Irrespective of the manner of their original establishment, whenever two or more fire districts adjoin and the boards of fire commissioners of each fire...
• 172-c - Alteration of Boundaries of Fire Protection District.
  The town board of a town in which any fire protection district has been established, or if established in two or more towns, the town...
• 172-e - Change of Name of Fire District.
  The name of a fire district may be changed upon a resolution of the board of fire commissioners of such fire district after a public...
• 172-f - Resolution and Hearing for Diminution of Fire District Boundaries.
  1. Irrespective of the manner of its original establishment, whenever a board of fire commissioners resolves, by a two-thirds vote, to diminish the boundaries of...
• 172-g - Filing of Determination.
  1. Whenever the board of fire commissioners and the town board shall adopt a resolution diminishing the area of a fire district and including such...
• 173 - Filing of Determination.
  1. Whenever the town board or boards shall adopt a resolution establishing or extending a fire alarm district or a fire protection district, or consolidating...
• 174 - Fire District Officers.
  1. Whenever a fire district shall be established, within ten days thereafter the town board of the town in which such district is located or,...
• 175 - Election of Fire District Officers.
  1. An annual election shall be held in each fire district on the second Tuesday in December, except that in the Ocean Bay Park fire...
• 175-a - Registration for Voters.
  1. The board of fire commissioners of any fire district may provide by resolution, that a proposition be submitted at any annual fire district election...
• 175-b - Absentee Ballots for Fire District Elections; Special Provisions.
  1. The board of fire commissioners of any fire district in which officers are elected, may, by resolution, provide for absentee ballots for fire district...
• 175-c - Notice of Hearings and Elections.
  1. In addition to any other notice or posting requirement, every fire district secretary shall cause a notice of any upcoming hearing or election to...
• 176 - Powers and Duties of Fire District Commissioners.
  Subject to law and the provisions of this chapter, the fire district commissioners of every fire district shall constitute and be known as the board...
• 176-a - Duties of Chief and Assistant Chiefs of Fire Department of Fire District.
  1. The chief shall, under the direction of the board of fire commissioners, have exclusive control of the members of the fire department of the...
• 176-b - Volunteer Members of Fire District Fire Companies.
  1. The volunteer members of a fire company shall be elected and appointed as provided in this section. 2. The board of fire commissioners shall...
• 176-c - Removal of Fire Commissioners.
  Any fire commissioner may be removed for dereliction of duty. Dereliction of duty shall include, but not be limited to, excessive unexcused absences from regularly...
• 176-d - Funding of Fire Districts.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a fire district may include as part of its budget an appropriation to fund an annual...
• 176-e - Training Requirements for Fire Commissioners.
  Each fire commissioner shall attend and successfully complete a commissioner-specific state-approved training course within two hundred seventy days of the taking of such office. The...
• 177 - Powers and Duties of Fire District Treasurer.
  The fire district treasurer shall be the fiscal officer of the fire district and shall receive and have the custody of the funds of the...
• 177-b - Powers and Duties of Deputy Fire District Treasurers.
  The board of fire commissioners of any fire district may appoint a deputy fire district treasurer to hold office until the thirty-first day of December...
• 177-c - Powers and Duties of the Director of Purchasing.
  In any fire district in which the office of director of purchasing has been established and a director of purchasing shall have been appointed and...
• 178 - Powers and Duties of Fire District Secretary.
  The fire district secretary shall attend all meetings of the board of fire commissioners, act as clerk thereof, and keep a complete and accurate record...
• 178-a - Expenses Incurred in Attending Town and County Officers Training School.
  The actual and necessary expenses incurred by a fire district officer or person duly elected as a fire district officer, in attending a course of...
• 178-b - Expenses of the Association of Fire Districts of the State of New York.
  The board of fire commissioners of any fire district may determine to expend and raise by taxation annually such sums as may be required toward...
• 178-c - Expenses of Fire District Officers, Officials and Employees.
  When incurred by the authority of the board of fire commissioners, the actual and necessary expenses, including expenses for travel, of all fire district officers...
• 178-d - Costs, Expenses and Damages a Fire District Charge in Certain Cases.
  Whenever the fire district commissioners or board of fire commissioners of any fire district, or any fire district officers, have been or shall be instructed...
• 179 - Special District Elections to Vote Upon Appropriations.
  The board of fire commissioners upon its own motion may submit, and upon petition, as hereinafter provided, shall cause to be submitted, at a special...
• 180 - Actions and Proceedings Against Fire Districts.
  No action shall be maintained against a fire district upon or arising out of a contract entered into by the fire district, unless the same...
• 181 - Annual Budget and Levy of Taxes.
  1. The fiscal year of each fire district shall begin on the first day of January and end on the thirty-first day of December. For...
• 181-a - Budgetary Controls.
  1. The fire district treasurer shall maintain a separate account for each appropriation made in the annual budget of the fire district. Each such account...
• 181-b - Independent Audit of Fire Districts.
  1. The commissioner of each fire district with revenues of three hundred thousand dollars or more shall obtain an annual audit of its records by...
• 182 - Effect of Incorporation of Village or City Including Lands Within a Fire District.
  1. Whenever any portion of any fire district heretofore or hereafter established shall be incorporated into the corporate limits of any incorporated village or city,...
• 183 - Fire Alarm Districts.
  Whenever the town board shall have established a fire alarm district pursuant to the provisions of this article, the town board shall prepare, or cause...
• 184 - Fire Protection Districts.
  1. Whenever the town board shall have established or extended a fire protection district pursuant to the provisions of this article, the town board shall...
• 184-a - Contract for Water Supply Outside of Fire Districts.
  The town board of any town, on behalf of a fire protection district or fire alarm district situated therein, or on behalf of the area...
• 184-c - Water Supply Outside of Fire Districts.
  The town board of any town, on behalf of a fire protection district or fire alarm district situated therein, or on behalf of the area...
• 186 - Savings Clause.
  1. Except as otherwise provided by law, fire districts now existing shall continue to exist as now established, subject to the provisions of this chapter....
• 187 - Exclusion of a Fire District From a Water Supply District.
  1. Petition. Whenever a fire district shall be located wholly within the boundaries of a water supply district which shall have no bonded indebtedness, a...
• 188 - Use of Surplus Town Moneys for Purchase of Fire Apparatus for Use in Town Fire Districts.
  The town board in a town in which a town fire district has been established pursuant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and twenty-six...
• 189 - Fire Inspection of Property in Contract Areas.
  The chief officer of the fire department or fire company which is to furnish fire protection service in a fire district, fire alarm district or...

Last modified: February 3, 2019