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NY A06845
Bill
Status
3/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Philip Palmesano
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AI Summary
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Allows boards of fire commissioners to adopt a resolution permitting fire districts to hold elections for chief and assistant chiefs on the same day as elections for administrative officers, rather than the current requirement of the Thursday following the first Tuesday in April
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Removes the existing provision that allowed rescheduling elections when the designated Thursday fell on a day of special religious observance
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Updates language throughout the statute to use gender-neutral terms (replacing "his" with "such person's" and "he has" with "they have")
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Maintains existing requirements that nominees for chief and assistant chief must be fire department members and cannot have been convicted of arson in any degree
Legislative Description
Provides that the election of chief and assistant chief by a fire department may be on the same day as the day of election of the fire department's election of administration officers.
Last Action
referred to local governments
1/7/2026