Title GMU, General Municipal

* § 207-o. Disabilities of members of the uniformed force of correction departments in certain cities. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or administrative code to the contrary, but except for the purposes of the workers' compensation law and …

§ 207-p. Performance of duty disability retirement; police and fire department. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or administrative code to the contrary, any paid member of a fire department and/or a paid police department, in a city with a population of one mi…

* § 207-q. Firefighters; presumption in certain diseases. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law to the contrary, and for the purposes of this chapter, any condition of impairment of health caused by diseases of the lung, resulting …

* § 207-q. Disabilities of emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical technicians in certain cities. a. Disabilities of persons performing emergency medical services in certain cities. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or admini…

§ 208. Members of police force to have one day rest in seven. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, every member of the police force in a city, county, town or village, except in case of an emergency, shall be allowed at least twenty-four consecutive hour…

§ 208-a. School guards. The duly constituted authorities of any city, town, or village or any county police department or police district may designate, authorize and appoint such a number of persons as such authority shall deem necessary, and at such salaries as such authority …

§ 208-b. Death benefits for beneficiaries of certain police officers and firefighters. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided, death benefit may be payable upon the death of a regular member of a police department or pol…

§ 208-c. Death benefits for dependent fathers or dependent mothers of certain police officers and firefighters. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and in addition to any benefits otherwise provided, any municipality, as enumerated in section two hundred eight-b of th…

* § 208-d. Extra work by members of certain police forces. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof, any member of a police force of a housing authority of any municipal…

* § 208-d. Compensation during disability. 1. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of any general, special or local law, any member of a police\nforce in a village or town to which the rules and regulations of the\nstate civil service shall have been extended prior to January first,\…

* § 208-d. Extra work by members of a police force in cities. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof, any member of a police force of a city may engage in extra work f…

§ 208-e. Extra work by members of certain police forces. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof, any member of a police force of a transit authority with facilities in…

§ 208-f. Special accidental death benefit. a. Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law, the special accidental death benefit provided by\nthis section shall be paid to the widow or widower or the deceased\nmember's children under the age of eighteen, or, if a student under th…

§ 208-g. Community activity by members of a police force. The provisions of any general, special or local law or any rule or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, including any rule or regulation of any police department or commissioner or head thereof, any member of a pol…

§ 208-h. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and retraining for police departments in cities having a population of one million or more 1. For the purposes of this section, "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" shall have the same meaning as provided in subdivision six of section s…

§ 209. Outside service by local fire departments, companies, ambulance districts and airport crash-fire-rescue units. 1. The fire department of any city, village or fire district, the fire companies serving territory outside of villages and fire districts in any town and the fir…

§ 209-a. Relations with other states and the dominion of Canada. 1. Whenever a volunteer fire company or department of this state shall answer a call for assistance from any political subdivision or territory of another state of the United States, or of the Dominion of Canada, o…

* § 209-aa. Paid leave for disaster service volunteers. 1. Members of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of New York who are certified disaster service volunteers of the American red cross shall be granted leave from work with regular pay to participate in sp…

* § 209-aa. Appointment of private college campus security officers at independent non-profit colleges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the chief law enforcement officer charged with oversight of law enforcement throughout a city having a populatio…

§ 209-b. Emergency rescue and first aid squads. 1. Emergencies. a. The authorities having control of fire departments and fire companies may organize within such departments or companies emergency rescue and first aid squads composed of firefighters who are members of such depar…

§ 209-bb. Specialized teams; volunteer wilderness/inland search and rescue teams. 1. a. By resolution, after a public hearing the governing body of each county, city and town is authorized, respectively, to establish, maintain and supervise municipal-wide and inter-municipal spe…

§ 209-c. Fire police squads of fire departments and fire companies. The authorities having control of fire departments and fire companies may organize within such departments or companies fire police squads composed of volunteer firefighters who are members of such departments o…

§ 209-cc. Notification of presence of wild animals and dangerous dogs. 1. The knowledge of the presence of dangerous wild animals, and dangerous dogs, in the context of emergency services responses, is necessary to protect public safety and the safety of emergency services perso…

§ 209-d. Contracts for outside service by volunteer fire departments and companies. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no contract shall be made by a municipality or fire district whereby the services of a volunteer fire department or company are to be supplied outside …

§ 209-dd. Discovery of unlawful drug laboratory. All emergency services personnel, as defined in section two hundred nine-cc of this article, shall be provided with information on recognizing the signs of an unlawful methamphetamine laboratory. Pursuant to section 19.27 of the m…

§ 209-e. Fire mobilization and mutual aid plan. 1. Plan. The state fire administrator shall prepare a state fire mobilization and mutual aid plan which may provide for the establishment of fire mobilization and mutual aid zones of the state. Upon filing of the plan in the office…

§ 209-ee. Adoption of a code of ethics and disclosure of interests by fire companies. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of general, special or local law to the contrary, every fire company that contracts with or is under the control of a county, city, town, village or fire distri…

§ 209-f. Outside service by local police forces; mobilization by governor; powers of sheriffs. 1. Whenever the public interest requires it, the governor may, in his discretion, authorize and direct the superintendent of state police, the sheriff of a county, the commissioner of …

§ 209-ff. Provisions relating to certain accidental disability benefits. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivisions a and b of section five hundred seven of the retirement and social security law, a police/fire member in active service, a New York city uniformed correctio…

§ 209-fff. Provisions relating to a membership date in the New York\ncity police pension fund or the fire department pension fund\nattributable to service in the titles of police cadet program and police\ncadet program II in the New York city police department cadet program.\n1.…

§ 209-g. Liability for outside aid. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, general, special or local, any county, city, town, village or fire district requesting fire aid pursuant to section two hundred nine-e of this article or any county, city, town or village r…

§ 209-gg. Symbols of hate. 1. A fire district, volunteer fire company, or police department shall not sell or display any symbols of hate or any similar image, or tangible personal property, inscribed with such an image unless the image appears in a book, digital medium, museum,…

§ 209-i. Emergency service by volunteer firefighters. 1. Whenever a volunteer firefighter is within this state, but outside the area regularly served by the fire company or fire department of which he or she is a member and has knowledge of a fire or other emergency at or near t…

§ 209-j. Mutual aid programs in counties. The board of supervisors in any county may appropriate and expend such sums as it may deem necessary and proper for the establishment and maintenance of a county mutual aid plan in cases of fire and other emergencies in which the service…

§ 209-l. Removal of volunteer officers and volunteer members of fire departments. 1. The authorities having control of fire departments of cities, towns, villages and fire districts may make regulations governing the removal of volunteer officers and volunteer members of such de…

§ 209-m. Outside service by local police; civil disturbance control. 1. As used in this section: a. The term "local government" shall mean a county, a city, a town, or a village, as the case may be. b. The term "chief executive officer" shall mean: (1) In the case of a county, t…

§ 209-p. Relay of fire and emergency calls. The fire department of any city may accept any calls for aid in cases of fire or other emergencies made to its fire headquarters from territory outside the city and may relay such calls for aid in fires or other emergencies by such mea…

§ 209-q. Permanent appointment of police officers; completion of\ntraining program. 1. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,\nspecial or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after\nJuly first, nineteen hundred sixty, receive an original appointment…

§ 209-r. Police protection. Notwithstanding any local or special law or charter provision, a city, town or village shall, irrespective of the boundaries of a privately owned housing development, provide for any streets and pathways open to the public within such development, pol…

§ 209-s. Contracts between municipalities and fire districts for joint fire training centers. The local governing bodies of the several cities, towns, villages and fire districts of the state, are hereby authorized on behalf of their respective cities, towns, villages and fire d…

§ 209-t. Contracts for joint fire alarm systems. The local governing bodies of the several villages and fire districts of the state are hereby authorized on behalf of their respective villages and fire districts to enter into contracts with any other village or fire district for…

§ 209-u. Notification of presence of hazardous materials. 1. The knowledge of the presence of hazardous materials is vital to meeting the contingencies of a fire or other emergency. It is the purpose of this section to secure the health, safety and welfare of the public, protect…

§ 209-v. Employment of retired persons as special patrolmen for publicly owned property. 1. Notwithstanding any general, local or special law or charter provision, the governing board of any political subdivision may authorize any police or law enforcement agency of such politic…

§ 209-w. Permanent appointment of fire fighters; completion of training program. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special, or local law or charter to the contrary, no person shall, after the effective date of regulations adopted by the state fire administrator p…

§ 209-x. Training of certain paid city firefighters promoted to a first-line supervisory position. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, any officer of a paid fire department promoted to a first-line supervisory positi…

§ 209-y. Establishment of hazardous materials emergency response teams. 1. By resolution, the governing body of each county is authorized to establish a hazardous materials emergency response team. Such teams shall be coordinated in accordance with a plan developed pursuant to s…

§ 209-z. Annual independent audits. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of general or special law to the contrary, any fire company with revenues of four hundred thousand dollars, or such lesser amount as the state comptroller shall designate, that contracts with a city, town, vill…

§ 21. Cancellation of unpaid checks or drafts. Checks or drafts of any municipal corporation, district corporation or school district which shall have been outstanding for more than one year from the respective dates thereof, shall be cancelled and the amount thereof returned to…

§ 210. United States may acquire land in cities. The United States is hereby authorized to acquire by condemnation, purchase or gift in conformity with the laws of this state, one or more pieces of land not exceeding two acres in extent, in any city or village of this state, for…

§ 211. Certified copy of transfer to be filed. Whenever the United States, by any agent authorized under the hand and seal of any head of an executive department of the government of the United States, shall cause to be filed in the office of the secretary of state of this state…