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                                   7162
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 45 of the laws of 1963 relating to incorporating
   the Bohemia Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association, and  providing
   for  its  powers  and duties, in relation to the use of certain moneys
   received by such benevolent association and modernization  of  certain
   language
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Sections 1, 2, 6 and 7 of chapter 45 of the  laws  of  1963
 relating  to  incorporating  the  Bohemia Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent
 Association, and providing for its powers and  duties,  are  amended  to
 read as follows:
   Section  1. Incorporation; membership. A membership corporation by the
 name of "Bohemia Volunteer [Firemen's] FIREFIGHTER'S Benevolent  Associ-
 ation"  is hereby created. It shall be composed of such persons eligible
 to membership therein as hereinafter provided as shall  (a)  notify  the
 secretary  of  the Bohemia volunteer fire department in writing prior to
 the organization meeting of such corporation hereinafter provided for of
 their desire to become members, or (b) shall attend such meeting  or  an
 adjournment  thereof,  and  also  such persons so eligible as may become
 members of such corporation pursuant to its by-laws.
   § 2. Persons eligible to membership. All persons who are now,  or  who
 have  been,  or  who  hereafter shall be active volunteer members of the
 Bohemia volunteer fire department, or of any  fire  corporation  in  the
 Bohemia  fire  district, and who have heretofore acquired or shall here-
 after acquire the status of exempt volunteer  [firemen]  FIREFIGHTER  as
 defined in section two hundred of the general municipal law or any other
 applicable  law  by  virtue  of  having  rendered service in the Bohemia
 volunteer fire department, or of any fire  corporation  in  the  Bohemia
 fire  district,  and all persons who are active volunteer members of the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 Bohemia volunteer fire department shall be eligible  for  membership  in
 the  corporation  created  by  this act, except that any [fireman] FIRE-
 FIGHTER who has been removed for cause, expelled  or  dropped  from  the
 rolls of any fire company or department, and who has not been reinstated
 therein,  shall  not be eligible for membership in such corporation. The
 membership of any person in such corporation shall  terminate  upon  the
 withdrawal  of  such person as an active volunteer member of the Bohemia
 volunteer fire department prior to the actual performance by such person
 of five years service as an  active  volunteer  member  of  the  Bohemia
 volunteer fire department. Whenever a member who is not an exempt [fire-
 man] FIREFIGHTER as defined by section two hundred of the general munic-
 ipal  law  shall move from such fire district or from territory provided
 with fire protection as aforesaid or if the territory in which a  member
 resides  shall  no  longer  be provided with such fire protection, [his]
 SUCH MEMBER'S membership in such corporation shall cease.
   § 6. Control and disposal of  funds  and  property.  The  control  and
 disposal  of the funds, property and estate of the said association, the
 exercise of its powers, and the management and control  of  its  affairs
 shall  be  vested  in  and  exercised by a board of trustees which shall
 consist of [five] EIGHT members of such corporation;  viz.:  the  presi-
 dent,  the  vice-president,  the secretary, the treasurer and [one] FOUR
 other [member] MEMBERS having the title of trustee.  Such  officers  and
 trustees  shall  be elected at the annual meeting of such corporation in
 the manner prescribed by its by-laws.
   § 7. Precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes. Such
 corporation shall collect and there  shall  be  paid  to  it  all  taxes
 imposed  by section [five hundred fifty-three] NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED
 FOUR of the insurance law, for fire department  use  and  benefit,  upon
 premiums  for insurance against loss or damage by fire covering property
 situated within the territory protected by the  Bohemia  volunteer  fire
 department,  located  in the town of Islip, Suffolk county, New York, or
 within any duly organized territory in which the Bohemia volunteer  fire
 department is or may be obligated to render fire protection. The officer
 of said corporation designated by its by-laws to collect and receive the
 aforesaid  tax  shall  have  all  the  powers  and be subject to all the
 provisions of the insurance law, relating to treasurers of fire  depart-
 ments. Such corporation shall also be entitled to receive a share of the
 tax  imposed  by  section  [five  hundred  fifty-four] NINE THOUSAND ONE
 HUNDRED FIVE of the insurance law, based upon the  business  written  in
 the  territory  with  respect  to  which  it  is entitled to collect and
 receive the tax under section [five hundred fifty-three]  NINE  THOUSAND
 ONE  HUNDRED  FOUR  of  the insurance law. Such taxes shall only be used
 [for the care and relief of disabled or indigent  volunteer  and  exempt
 volunteer firemen and their families] IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS PURPOSES SET
 FORTH IN SECTION THREE OF THIS ACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.