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                                   5351
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of  subdivision  1  of  section
 122-b of the general municipal law, paragraphs (d) and (f) as amended by
 chapter  303 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph (e) as amended by section
 2 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, are amended  and  a  new
 closing paragraph is added to read as follows:
   (d)  ESTABLISH  A  SPECIAL DISTRICT FOR THE FINANCING AND OPERATION OF
 GENERAL AMBULANCE SERVICES AS SET FORTH BY  THIS  SECTION,  WHEREBY  ANY
 COUNTY,  CITY,  TOWN  OR  VILLAGE, EITHER WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY WITHIN THE
 ADIRONDACK PARK, ACTING INDIVIDUALLY, OR JOINTLY WITH ANY OTHER  COUNTY,
 CITY, TOWN AND/OR VILLAGE, EITHER WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY WITHIN THE ADIRON-
 DACK  PARK,  THROUGH  ITS GOVERNING BODY OR BODIES, FOLLOWING APPLICABLE
 PROCEDURES AS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF  FIRE  DISTRICTS  IN
 ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE TOWN LAW OR FOLLOWING APPLICABLE PROCEDURES AS ARE
 REQUIRED  FOR  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  OF  JOINT  FIRE  DISTRICTS IN ARTICLE
 ELEVEN-A OF THE TOWN LAW, WITH SUCH SPECIAL DISTRICT BEING AUTHORIZED BY
 THIS SECTION TO BE ESTABLISHED IN ALL OR ANY PART OF  ANY  SUCH  PARTIC-
 IPATING COUNTY OR COUNTIES, TOWN OR TOWNS, CITY OR CITIES AND/OR VILLAGE
 OR VILLAGES;
   (E) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
 (b) [or], (c) OR (D) OF THIS SUBDIVISION;
   [(e)] (F) A contract may be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
 this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
 of  a fire department or fire company which is subject to the provisions
 of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   [(f)] (G)  Consider  prehospital  emergency  treatment  as  that  care
 provided   by  certified  emergency  medical  technicians  or  certified
 advanced  emergency  medical  technicians  certified  pursuant  to   the
 provisions of article thirty of the public health law.
   ANY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE WHICH ESTABLISHES OR PARTICIPATES IN
 A  JOINT  DISTRICT  PURSUANT  TO PARAGRAPH (D) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
 DISSOLVE AND ABOLISH ANY PREEXISTING LOCAL  DISTRICT  SERVING  THE  SAME
 JURISDICTION.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the general
 municipal law, as amended by chapter 303 of the laws of 1980, is amended
 to read as follows:
   [(e)] (F) No contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions
 of this section for the services of an emergency rescue  and  first  aid
 squad  of  a  fire  department  or  fire company which is subject to the
 provisions of section two hundred nine-b of [the general municipal  law]
 THIS CHAPTER;
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 122-b of the
 general municipal law made by section one of this act shall  be  subject
 to  the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 4
 of part KK of chapter 55 of the laws of 2022, when upon  such  date  the
 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.