§ 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 next succeeding his appointment. During the absence or inability to act of the fire district treasurer, or while the office […]
§ 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 qualified, the director of purchasing shall make all purchases and all contracts for supplies, materials and equipment of every nature […]
§ 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 of the proceedings of each meeting and of all propositions, rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article. The fire district […]
§ 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 training for his respective office as provided by the town and county officers training school of the state […]
§ 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 defraying the actual and necessary expenses of maintaining and continuing the association of fire districts […]
§ 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 and paid employees of the fire district, and of all paid and volunteer officers of the fire district fire department, […]
§ 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 by a resolution adopted at a regular special meeting of the board of fire commissioners to defend […]
§ 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 or annual fire district election, a proposition: 1. (a) To purchase fire apparatus and fire-fighting vehicles for the extinguishment or prevention […]
§ 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 shall be commenced within eighteen months after the cause of action thereof shall have accrued, nor unless a written verified claim shall […]
§ 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 each fiscal year, the board of fire commissioners of each fire district shall prepare and adopt an annual budget in accordance with […]
§ 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 shall show the amount appropriated, the several amounts expended from the account, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation. 2. No expenditure shall be made, nor […]
§ 181-b. Independent audit of fire districts. 1. The commissioner of each fire district with revenues of four hundred thousand dollars or more shall obtain an annual audit of its records by an independent certified public accountant or an independent public accountant. The report of such annual audit shall be presented to the fire district […]
§ 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, the town board or town boards of the town or towns in which such fire […]
§ 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 to be prepared, plans, specifications, estimates and a proposed contract for the installation, extension and maintenance of a fire alarm system in such district. Upon […]
§ 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 provide for the furnishing of fire protection within the district and for that purpose may (a) contract with any city, village, fire district or […]
§ 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 of the town outside of any village, fire district, fire protection district or fire alarm district, which area is hereinafter […]
§ 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 of the town outside of any village, fire district, fire protection district or fire alarm district, which area is hereinafter referred to […]
§ 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. Except as hereinafter provided no fire district officers shall be appointed or elected as successors to such officers holding office at the time this article shall […]
§ 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 written petition as hereinafter provided may be presented to the town board of the town in which the […]
§ 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 of the laws of nineteen hundred sixteen may authorize the expenditure of […]
