Bill Text: NY S02659 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S02659 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02659-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2659

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  STEC,  OBERACKER, ORTT, TEDISCO -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the establish-
          ment  of  special  districts for general ambulance services within the
          Adirondack park

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs  (d),  (e) and (f) of subdivision 1 of section
     2  122-b of the general municipal law, paragraphs (d) and (f) as amended by
     3  chapter 303 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph (e) as amended by  section
     4  2  of  part  KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, are amended and a new
     5  closing paragraph is added to read as follows:
     6    (d) Establish a special district for the financing  and  operation  of
     7  general  ambulance  services  as  set forth by this section, whereby any
     8  county, city, town or village, either wholly  or  partially  within  the
     9  Adirondack  park, acting individually, or jointly with any other county,
    10  city, town and/or village, either wholly or partially within the Adiron-
    11  dack park, through its governing body or  bodies,  following  applicable
    12  procedures  as  are  required for the establishment of fire districts in
    13  article eleven of the town law or following applicable procedures as are
    14  required for the  establishment  of  joint  fire  districts  in  article
    15  eleven-A of the town law, with such special district being authorized by
    16  this  section  to  be established in all or any part of any such partic-
    17  ipating county or counties, town or towns, city or cities and/or village
    18  or villages;
    19    (e) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
    20  (b) [or], (c) or (d) of this subdivision;
    21    [(e)] (f) A contract may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
    22  this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the  provisions
     2  of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;
     3    [(f)]  (g)  Consider  prehospital  emergency  treatment  as  that care
     4  provided  by  certified  emergency  medical  technicians  or   certified
     5  advanced   emergency  medical  technicians  certified  pursuant  to  the
     6  provisions of article thirty of the public health law.
     7    Any county, city, town or village which establishes or participates in
     8  a joint district pursuant to paragraph (d)  of  this  subdivision  shall
     9  dissolve  and  abolish  any  preexisting local district serving the same
    10  jurisdiction.
    11    § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b  of  the  general
    12  municipal law, as amended by chapter 303 of the laws of 1980, is amended
    13  to read as follows:
    14    [(e)] (f) No contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions
    15  of  this  section  for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid
    16  squad of a fire department or fire  company  which  is  subject  to  the
    17  provisions  of section two hundred nine-b of [the general municipal law]
    18  this chapter;
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    20  the amendments to paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the
    21  general  municipal  law made by section one of this act shall be subject
    22  to the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section  4
    23  of  part  KK  of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, when upon such date the
    24  provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.