§ 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 of New York
for the purpose of improving the administration of municipal affairs in
the town and counties of the state, shall be a charge against the fire
district of which he is an officer or officer-elect. No person, however,
shall be allowed such expenses for attending a regional school unless
his district shall be included within the area of such region as
established by the board of trustees of the town and county officers
training school of the state of New York. The board of fire
commissioners, in lieu of auditing and allowing the claim of a fire
district officer or officer-elect for actual and necessary expenses for
travel in attending any such course of training, may determine by
resolution to allow and pay such officer or officer-elect a reasonable
mileage allowance for the use of his own automobile for each mile
actually and necessarily traveled by him in attending such course of
training.