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                                  7133--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 10, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, the general municipal law and the
   executive law, in relation to the minimum qualifications to serve as a
   fire chief in any fire department, fire district  or  fire  protection
   district that employs six or more paid firefighters
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 and paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section
 58-a of the civil service law, subdivision 6 as  amended  and  paragraph
 (b)  of  subdivision  7 as added by chapter 406 of the laws of 2018, are
 amended to read as follows:
   6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to appointments made
 by any county, city, town, village or fire district which employs [fewer
 than five] FIVE OR FEWER fire fighters.
   (b) has successfully completed  training  and  education  [courses  of
 minimum  contact hour criteria approved] REQUIREMENTS ESTABLISHED by the
 state fire administrator [and  received  certification  for  supervisory
 level 1 or higher pursuant to 19 NYCRR 427.9].
   §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
 204-dd to read as follows:
   § 204-DD. QUALIFICATIONS OF A FIRE CHIEF. NO PERSON SHALL BE  ELIGIBLE
 FOR APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION AS THE FIRE CHIEF, OR ANY TITLE OR RANK THAT
 INCLUDES THE DUTIES OF THE CHIEF, IN ANY FIRE DEPARTMENT OR FIRE COMPANY
 WITH  SIX OR MORE PAID FIREFIGHTERS, UNLESS HE OR SHE MEETS THE REQUIRE-
 MENTS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FIFTY-EIGHT-A
 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  TERM
 FIREFIGHTER  SHALL  MEAN  A  MEMBER  OF  A  FIRE DEPARTMENT WHOSE DUTIES
 INCLUDE FIRE SERVICE AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH D OF SUBDIVISION ELEVEN  OF
 SECTION THREE HUNDRED TWO OF THE RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   §  3.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 159-d to
 read as follows:
   §  159-D. TRAINING FOR FIRE CHIEFS. THE STATE FIRE ADMINISTRATOR SHALL
 CONDUCT THE TRAINING AND EDUCATION REQUIRED FOR FIRE CHIEFS PURSUANT  TO
 SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION FIFTY-EIGHT-A OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW WITH
 SUFFICIENT  FREQUENCY  TO  ENABLE  INDIVIDUALS  TO SATISFY THE NECESSARY
 QUALIFICATIONS FOR A FIRE CHIEF PURSUANT TO SUCH SECTION. TO THE  EXTENT
 PRACTICABLE,  SUCH TRAINING AND EDUCATION SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN ALL
 GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS OF THE STATE. SUCH REGIONS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE
 STATE FIRE ADMINISTRATOR.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition  of  any
 rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
 effective date.