Local Governments

Allows an authority having jurisdiction over a volunteer fire department or fire company in a county, city, town, village, fire district, or fire protection district to provide volunteer firefighters with a stipend for responses to calls and for certain standby services.

Relates to the application of certain provisions relating to the use of certain moneys received by the Bohemia Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association to taxes due on premiums received before January 1, 2026.

Permits the town of Warwick to utilize preservation funds for the implementation of water quality improvement projects.

Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan at least once every ten years to ensure that such plan addresses housing needs.

Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers.

Relates to extending provisions relating to statutory installment bonds.

Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district.

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to amend an existing conservation easement to allow for rail access and service.

Authorizes the village of Mayville to transfer the funds of the the Mayville ambulance reserve fund and the Mayville fire and rescue equipment reserve fund to the newly formed North Lake Fire District reserve accounts.

Expands the residency requirement for the village clerk, deputy village clerk, village treasurer, and deputy village treasurer of the village of Washingtonville such that such person need not be a resident of such village, but must be a resident in the county in which such village is located or an adjoining county within the state of New York.

Requires applications for retail gas station building permits to include one electric vehicle charging station using direct current fast chargers at such gasoline station per four gas dispensing pumps.

Exempts the village of Williamsville fire department, located in the village of Williamsville, county of Erie, from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of its membership.

Authorizes municipalities to post legal notices on their official municipal websites in lieu of publishing such notices in a newspaper.

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing.

Dissolves the Rockland county drainage agency and transfers its powers to the Rockland county highway department; repeals provisions relating to creating a stream control act for the county of Rockland and defining its powers and duties.

Directs the department of health to make available a model comprehensive county emergency medical system plan to provide guidance to counties in developing their plans and to review such county plans within a certain period of time; and directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties.

Directs the department of health to make available a model comprehensive county emergency medical system plan to provide guidance to counties in developing their plans and to review such county plans within a certain period of time; and directs counties, in coordination with their regional emergency medical services councils, to develop and maintain comprehensive county emergency medical system plans that provide for coordinated emergency medical systems within such counties.

Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.

Expands the law to include the preservation of regionally significant projects with respect to agencies drawing on funds for new building projects.

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to alienate certain lands used as parklands for the purposes of installing a cellular tower.

Permits local health officials to request copies of certain reports and records relating to a death.

Extends the period of probable usefulness of broadband and related telecommunications infrastructure to thirty years.

Permits land bank officers and employees to participate in the New York state and local retirement system if a resolution is adopted by its board of directors.

Authorizes the county of Chautauqua to alienate and discontinue the use of certain reforested lands.

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.

Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program.

Establishes the Clarence Center Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; provides for eligibility of membership, purpose, powers and duties, organization meeting and by-laws, the control and disposal of funds and property and the precept for payment of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.

Expands the law to include the preservation of regionally significant projects with respect to agencies drawing on funds for new building projects.

Proposes changes to article 9 of the constitution in relation to the formation of new towns by drawing a map and preparing a charter of the proposed town and preparing a petition relating thereto.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.

Relates to the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Ridge volunteer exempt firefighter's benevolent association.

Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.

Relates to the Nesconset Volunteer Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association; provides for the purpose of such association, and its use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.

Provides that the Seaview/Ocean Bay Park garbage district shall have 7 commissioners; provides for the requirements for appointment of such commissioners.

Extends the open auction bond sale pilot program.

Requires telecommunications system contracts provide for emergency 911 in municipal land lease agreements.

Relates to the delivery of the good faith deposit following award of the bonds to the successful bidder; provides that a municipality, school district or district corporation may require that such deposit be made as a condition precedent to the consideration of a bid for the bonds.

Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner.

Authorizes municipalities to purchase private residential real property located in a floodplain.

Establishes the "broadband deployment assistance act"; requires that substantially similar permits for broadband deployment be processed together at the same time and on an expedited basis; defines terms; authorizes municipalities to simultaneously process certain broadband permit applications that are substantially similar.

Relates to volunteer members of village fire companies.

Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing.

Relates to the powers of the New York state industrial development agency.

Relates to loans and grants by industrial development agencies; requires uniform criteria for evaluation and selection of an eligible entity for a loan; defines terms; outlines such criteria.

Establishes the volunteer fire departments capital fund under the office of fire prevention and control; appropriates funds for such capital fund.

Exempts the Caughdenoy Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., within the town of Central Square, Oswego county from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members.

Provides that a town may not direct abutting property owners to maintain sidewalks which abut county highways or which are not directly accessible from such owner's property.

Exempts payments in lieu of taxes received or receivable with regards to renewable energy projects from local governments' tax cap calculations; defines term.

Authorizes the town of Niagara to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to convey such parklands to David Gaines.

Authorizes the county of Putnam to alienate certain lands used as parklands in the town of Carmel for use as a cell tower.

Expands the Tompkins county industrial development agency from a maximum of seven members to nine members.

Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to the authority of the village of Plandome Manor to enter into contracts to sell delinquent tax liens or to pledge such liens as collateral for a loan.

Relates to the regulation of municipal shooting ranges, including limiting the hours of operation and addressing noise pollution; directs the department of health to conduct a study describing the contaminants and other pollutants in the ground and water bodies adjacent to certain shooting ranges.

Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district.

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of twenty years.

Requires municipal corporations to reimburse residents in whole or in part for justifiable maintenance, such as snow removal and the removal of debris, of publicly owned areas.

Establishes a municipal group insurance technical assistance program for the purpose of assisting persons and municipalities with access to indemnity insurance and employee compensation pursuant to the volunteer firefighter's benefit law.

Requires towers to clean up any debris in the surrounding area resulting from the vehicles they are towing and tow trucks to be equipped with the appropriate equipment for such clean up efforts.

Relates to the use of certain park funds required by a planning board in lieu of land for parks for the costs associated with the acquisition of property, improvement, expansion, repair or replacement of parks, playgrounds, and recreational facilities and equipment, general maintenance of parks and recreational facilities.

Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

Authorizes municipalities and districts to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of centralized public employee administrative and personnel services; provides for health insurance coverage of municipal employees pursuant to standardized health insurance contracts; authorizes the provision of reduced premiums for municipal health insurance plans which offer wellness programs.

Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland.

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Requires municipalities and other public officials to retain security recordings for a minimum of fifteen months.

Authorizes counties to post local laws and notices via the internet where such county doesn't have a newspaper published within the county.

Provides that at the request of an owner of a parcel of property within the boundaries of such sewer district requests exclusion from the sewer district due to the lack of sewage services provided to such parcel of property, such request shall be granted without the state department of health approval and without the procedure set forth in section 256 of the county law.

Requires any municipality which conducts lead testing to provide notices to the owner and any tenants of a residence upon a positive test and inform the owner and any tenants of lead abatement programs and other resources; requires municipalities to notify tenants of lead testing.

Authorizes the village of Nyack to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to use the funds received for the acquisition of new parklands and/or capital improvements to existing park and recreational facilities.

Includes environmental pollution mitigation projects within the authorized purposes of industrial development agencies.

Authorizes the renewal of the WSKG lease for such land, tower and associated utility lines to the Tioga county emergency services, the Newark Valley central school district, the Berkshire fire department and the town of Berkshire highway department for a period of twenty years.

Provides for a review process of proposals to alienate municipal parkland.

Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment, machinery or apparatus.

Requires municipalities which permit sidewalk and roadway cafes to permit year-round outdoor dining.

Authorizes the village of Greenwood Lake, county of Orange to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village.

Creates the Eastchester creek intermunicipal economic revitalization agency.

Requires the office of fire prevention and control to pay training stipends in specific amounts to volunteer firefighters for completion of certain firefighter trainings; provides that if a volunteer fire company pays training stipends to volunteer firefighters in an amount below what is otherwise required to be paid by OFPC, OFPC shall pay the remaining amount.

Provides that the police commissioner of any police department in a city having a population of one million or more shall not substantially alter the boundaries of police precincts, once fixed, or close, remove or relocate a police stationhouse unless at least thirty days prior to the date such action shall take effect, written notice of such action has been given to each local community board or board having jurisdiction over that part of the city directly affected by such proposed alteration, closure, removal or relocation.

Authorizes political subdivisions to award public contracts to participants of a minority and women owned business enterprise program at a cost premium not to exceed ten percent of the lowest bid.

Authorizes the town of Pavilion in Genesee county to share and hold justice court in the town of Covington in Wyoming county.

Prohibits the siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity in assembly district 64; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

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.

Provides that the tax levy limit shall not include a tax levy necessary for expenditures resulting from a local government meeting its obligation to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits to volunteer firefighters as required under section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law.

Requires floor area ratio requirements for buildings on farms to be no more restrictive than state requirements for zoning purposes.

Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given.

Relates to requiring municipalities, authorities and agencies to obtain liability insurance on each duly appointed police officer in an amount not less than $200,000.

Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality.

Establishes the Nassau county and Queens county border task force to review jurisdiction and boundary disputes.

Relates to excluding renewable energy pilot projects and certain energy system-related payments in lieu of taxes from tax cap calculations, and to the establishment of a distributed generation energy development program that provides a single forum for state-level appeals for proposed distributed generation energy facilities.

Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland.

Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.

Reestablishes the office of coroner in the county of Oswego; removes the powers and duties of coroners from the district attorney in such county; allows Oswego County to appoint a coroner.

Provides that local state of emergency orders issued by a chief executive of a county, city, town or village shall not violate section 291 of the executive law providing equality of opportunity of a civil right.

Relates to the amount of the allowable levy growth factor and the percentage of votes needed to override the tax levy limit.

Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency.

Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.

Relates to county-wide shared services panels; includes library districts within county-wide shared services panels; establishes the municipal efficiency fund to provide counties with awards of matching funds upon certification by the department of state.

Directs municipalities to permit the construction and occupation of dwelling units with a density of at least twenty-five dwelling units per acre, on any land wherein residential construction and occupation is otherwise permitted if such land is within one-half mile of any covered transportation facility.

Provides that if it appears that a death may have resulted from the commission of a crime, the coroner or medical examiner in any county with geographic jurisdiction over the crime shall have concurrent jurisdiction and authority to investigate the death.

Provides that if, as a result of services performed in line of duty during a state of emergency, a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker is exposed to or comes in contact with COVID-19, the chief engineer or other executive officer of the fire department or fire company or the captain or other executive officer of the ambulance department, volunteer ambulance company or ambulance district of which they are a member may authorize such volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker to obtain such examinations, tests, treatment and care as are immediately necessary to determine whether they are injured; further grants a presumption that exposure to COVID-19 caused partial or total disability or death.

Relates to the formula for the real property tax cap.

Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.

Relates to the trustees of the Freeholders and the Commonalty of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk; provides that the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton have and shall continue to have the authority to enforce the public's easement and access upon the ocean beaches within the town of Southampton, including all rights of the public with respect to the said ocean beaches which were conferred upon them by the Dongan Patent of 1686; defines "ocean beaches".

Establishes a youth outreach department within the state police, city, village, town, and district police departments, and sheriff departments for the purposes of designing and carrying out youth activities organized by the department.

Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000; makes an appropriation therefor.

Clarifies the definition of a paid firefighter to include firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs for the purpose of receiving certain benefits as other firefighters.

Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.

Relates to liability for outside aid.

Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.

Requires each town, village, and city to develop a "housing action plan for everyone", including consideration of local needs and specific strategies to address those local needs.

Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals.

Makes town assessors an appointed position statewide; ends elections for town assessors.

Permits the appointment of fire chiefs and assistant chiefs who are employees of a fire district.

Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities.

Authorizes the dissolution and discontinuance by the town of Ballston, in the county of Saratoga, of the Jenkins Park District.

Limits the authority of cities, villages and towns to impose certain zoning requirements.

Establishes the New York state auxiliary officer death benefit fund to provide a death benefit to the families of auxiliary officers who died in the line of duty during the state of emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-nine of the executive law beginning March 7, 2020.

Provides for a referendum on the question "Do you support the division of New York into two separate states?".

Allows for the creation of a joint police department for the towns of Webb and Inlet; outlines requirements for local laws establishing rules and regulations for such department.

Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in a designated or marked off area that has been set up by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participant cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure.

Prohibits municipal corporations from refusing resettlement of asylum seekers from other municipal corporations in the state, provided that the resettling municipal corporation covers the costs of such resettlement, and no property of the municipal corporation receiving such asylum seekers is used without such municipal corporation's consent.

Authorizes municipalities to establish a history, arts, and culture levy to support history, arts, and culture; exempts such levy from the real property tax levy limit.

Requires police officers to maintain liability insurance; excludes police officers from provisions requiring defense and indemnification of state officers and employees.

Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.

Restricts the formation of new development agencies in Erie County; limits the authority of town industrial development agencies located within Erie County to exempt certain taxes.

Imposes a term limit of four years on town supervisors.

Relates to notice to the commander of a military station of certain municipal actions that occur within 3000 feet of the property to be affected by the proposed action.

Authorizes municipalities to make purchases from other municipalities' contracts.

Requires a three-year moratorium on unfunded mandates from the legislature; invalidates legislation that does not contain a detailed fiscal note identifying a funding source for certain costs to a political subdivision; restores the mandate relief council.

Relates to reimbursement for coroner and medical examiner fees from the county where the decedent resided.

Prohibits the name of municipalities and subdivisions thereof to include the word swastika.

Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority.

Relates to Eastchester fire district elections; follows provisions of election law instead of town law for elections.

Requires municipalities to include an Affordable Housing Needs Assessment to establish a data-based foundation for the creation and preservation of affordable housing in the municipality, utilizing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development median income calculations, in their comprehensive plans.

Requires each municipality having a population of five hundred thousand persons or more to establish an office of the inspector general for such municipality.

Prohibits the removal of managed natural landscapes that are maintained within the bounds of private property.

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

Relates to application and environmental assessment forms and city and village planning commissions.

Authorizes the town of Massena to issue bonds to cover the cost of pension contributions due by the town for employees of the former Massena Memorial Hospital.

Relates to the cost for legal services in connection with any claim arising under the volunteer firefighter's benefit law.

Relates to vested rights of property owners relating to the development of their land in the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester; requires notice by applicant to property owners within 250 feet of land development application; provides for the repeal of such provisions six years after they take effect.

Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.

Directs the secretary of state to prepare and distribute to cities, towns and villages criterion for a comprehensive outdoor lighting ordinance; updates general lighting restrictions.

Permits the commissioner of health to designate local health officials to request copies of certain reports and records relating to a death.

Removes expenditures for emergency medical services from the limit on real property tax levies by local governments.

Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law.

Authorizes the town of Copake to establish community preservation funds and to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited into the community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof.

Renames the "West Islip Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association" to the "West Islip Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association"; changes such association's purpose.

Permits the city of White Plains, Westchester county, to lease certain sports field fences for advertisements.

Authorizes the assistant court clerk and fire marshal of the town of Harrison, county of Westchester, to be nonresidents of such town.

Updates the Pound Ridge Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association's charter and provides for new duties of such charter.

Authorizes the building inspector in the town of Pendleton, county of Niagara, to reside outside of such town if they reside within such county or an adjoining county.

Exempts the South Onondaga Fire Department within the town of Onondaga, Onondaga county, from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Regulates the use of cooperative purchasing agreements for public works projects by political subdivisions of the state by implementing certain advertisement requirements.

Provides that a policy of this state should be to increase housing options and opportunities, including but not limited to affordable, and workforce and senior housing.

Abolishes the office of coroner.

Provides that where any condition of impairment of health caused by Parkinson's disease, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a volunteer firefighter, where such volunteer firefighter successfully passed a physical examination on entry into such service or subsequent thereto, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition, shall be presumptive evidence that such disability or death was caused by the natural and proximate result of an accident, not caused by such firefighter's own negligence; and was incurred in the performance and discharge of duty, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence.

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Establishes the "broadband deployment assistance act"; requires that substantially similar permits for broadband deployment be processed together at the same time and on an expedited basis; defines terms; authorizes municipalities to simultaneously process certain broadband permit applications that are substantially similar.

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs; directs the municipal police training council to promulgate rules and regulations relating to qualification for municipal police forces for persons who were previously sworn members of the state police and to provide certificates to such persons who meet such qualifications.

Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing.

Classifies emergency medical services as essential services for the purposes of state aid.

Establishes a procedure for the creation of new counties; outlines population and area requirements; requires a feasibility study, petition and referendum; makes related provisions.

Relates to the delivery of the good faith deposit following award of the bonds to the successful bidder; provides that a municipality, school district or district corporation may require that such deposit be made as a condition precedent to the consideration of a bid for the bonds.

Authorizes the town of Union Vale, county of Dutchess, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to lease the lands to Homeland Towers, LLC for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower.

Authorizes the town of Ithaca, county of Tompkins, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of maintaining and operating such lands for agricultural purposes.

Authorizes the discontinuance of certain parklands in the town of Amherst, county of Erie for lease to Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, LLC d/b/a Verizon Wireless for the placement and operation of a wireless communications tower.

Extends the open auction bond sale pilot program.

Extends the expiration of provisions relating to including the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton, trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East Hampton and the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southold as municipal corporations for the purposes of permitting them to receive land at no cost from Suffolk County to be placed under their stewardship.

Amends provisions relating to creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters, in relation to the effectiveness of such provisions.

Extends the effectiveness of provisions relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Extends the provisions of accepting payment in lieu of taxes for property acquired for parks or recreational purposes.

Extends the expiration of payments in lieu of taxes for Lido Beach in the town of Hempstead until June 30, 2027.

Provides that certain purchase contracts to purchase food can be awarded to a qualified bidder who fulfills certain values based procurement standards when such bid is not more than 10% higher than the lowest responsible bidder and when the bidder makes publicly available data on where such bidder sources their food items; sets forth the criteria for values based procurement standards to include local economies, environmental resilience, racial equity, valued workforce, valued agricultural sector, animal welfare, and nutrition.

Relates to the membership and purposes of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Coldenham Inc.; changes the name of the association to the "Volunteer and Exempt Firefighter's Benevolent Association of Coldenham, Inc"; updates the purposes of such association and the use of taxes received by such association.

Authorizes the town of Niagara to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands.

Provides a performance and discharge of duty presumption for any condition of impairment of health caused by leptospirosis, resulting in total or partial disability or death to a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid sanitation department, where such paid member is drawn from competitive civil service lists, who successfully passed a physical examination on entry into the service of such department, which examination failed to reveal any evidence of such condition.

Authorizes the village of Malverne to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to develop new parkland or capital improvements to existing parks within the village.

Revives provisions of law relating to authorizing the use of existing village sewer rents for infrastructure projects other than sewer projects in the village of Baldwinsville.

Waives the residency requirement for the office of commissioner of finance of the county of Putnam.

Establishes the "county of Westchester public works investment act" which allows the Westchester county department of public works and the Westchester county department of transportation to utilize design-build project delivery.

Ratifies and confirms the creation of water district number 14 of the town of Monroe, made up of the water system previously owned and operated by Orchard Hill Water Company and which has been owned and operated by the town of Monroe by mandate from the public service commission since 2013; authorizes the issuance of bonds or notes by such town to finance certain inter-fund borrowings by such water district.

Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to alienate certain parklands for use as a recharge basin and to dedicate other lands as replacement parklands.

Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years.

Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law.

Requires the forfeiture of benefits to be paid pursuant to a service awards program to volunteer firefighters who have been convicted of felonies committed against a volunteer fire department, volunteer fire company, fire district, or fire protection district.

Authorizes the board of trustees of the village of East Syracuse to permit that the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by a non-resident who lives in the town of Dewitt.

Prohibits the department of environmental conservation from charging any application fee or any other fee for activities undertaken pursuant to a lake program.

Removes requirements for certain smaller municipalities to maintain official websites.

Relates to prohibiting police officers from carrying or using a firearm during any phase of the officer's official duties unless the officer has satisfactorily completed a course of training that meets or exceeds the minimum standards established by the municipal police training council.

Includes lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs.

Provides that for the purposes of the electronic open auction public bond sale pilot program, the term "municipality" shall mean a county or a city or town with a population of one hundred thousand or more.

Requires municipalities to determine whether it is in the public interest to create a comprehensive plan adapted to the special requirements of the municipality and to determine whether it is in the public interest to update such comprehensive plan at least once every ten years to ensure that such plan addresses housing needs.

Permits the town of Putnam Valley, Putnam county, to lease sports field fences at Leonard Wagner Memorial Park for advertisements with the revenues to be used solely by such town's department of parks and recreation for such sports field.

Clarifies procedures affecting the first annual election of fire district officials to a board of fire commissioners to allow voters to cast one vote for each open position on such board of fire commissioners to be filled in such election.

Amends the purposes and duties of the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Millwood, New York; makes certain technical corrections.

Exempts the Varna Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., within the town of Dryden, Tompkins county from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members.

Provides for the incorporation of the Bedford Hills Fire Department Benevolent Association and for its powers and duties.

Authorizes the village of Round Lake, in the town of Malta and the county of Saratoga, to extend the lease of certain park lands in such village for up to an additional thirty years.

Relates to appointing instead of electing a treasurer for the park district in the town of Southold, county of Suffolk.

Prohibits the removal of managed natural landscapes that are maintained within the bounds of private property.

Waives the residency requirement for certain county attorney positions within Essex county including assistant public defender.

Authorizes the county of Monroe to convey appropriate instruments to EH Henrietta Solar 1 LLC and EH Henrietta Solar 2 LLC for an easement across Lehigh Valley Trail Park, for ingress and egress to and from the project site and installation of a medium voltage cable; makes related provisions.

Relates to the purpose of such corporation and the use of certain tax monies received by the Rescue Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association Inc. in the town of Cheektowaga, Erie county.

Authorizes towns to adopt, amend or repeal local laws to impose a surcharge per telephone line per month on the customers of every service supplier within such town to pay for the costs associated with obtaining, operating and maintaining an enhanced 911 emergency telephone system to serve such town.

Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers.

Makes provisions permanent relating to disability due to disease or malfunction of the heart or coronary arteries.

Requires municipalities to submit a multi-year financial plan to the comptroller.

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Authorizes the town of East Hampton to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland for the purpose of a Suffolk County roadway improvement project.

Extends provisions providing for the sale of municipal obligations by the county of Erie.

Authorizes the village of Sodus Point, in the town of Sodus, county of Wayne to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village.

Authorizes the town of Orangetown to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Authorizes the town of East Hampton to alienate and convey certain parcels of land used as parkland for the purpose of a Suffolk County roadway improvement project.

Authorizes the town of Yorktown, county of Westchester, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands.

Authorizes the village of Ballston Spa to transfer ownership of the Woods Hollow Nature Preserve to the town of Milton; makes related provisions.

Relates to when a referendum is required when a village has provided that village elections shall occur on the same day as the general election.

Authorizes the town of Kinderhook to alienate certain parklands and to convey such land to the Valatie Volunteer Rescue Squad for the purpose of providing emergency medical services to the town of Kinderhook.

Permits the town of Kent, Putnam county, to lease sports field fences for advertisements with the revenues to be used solely for the care of Guglielmo Field.

Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.

Permits the town of Putnam Valley, Putnam county, to lease sports field fences at Leonard Wagner Memorial Park for advertisements with the revenues to be used solely by such town's department of parks and recreation for such sports field.

Waives the local residency requirement for the village clerk and village treasurer in the village of Portville by permitting such public officers to reside within Cattaraugus county or an adjoining county within the State of New York.

Relates to exempting certain fire department officers of the Village of Hancock fire department from a New York state residency requirement; provides that chief, first and second assistant chiefs and any additional chiefs of the fire department of the village of Hancock need not be a resident of the state of New York.

Establishes a municipal group insurance technical assistance program for the purpose of assisting persons and municipalities with access to indemnity insurance and employee compensation pursuant to the volunteer firefighter's benefit law.

Relates to the source of tax revenues paid to the Deer Park Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association for fire department use and benefit.

Relates to the source of tax revenues paid to the Deer Park Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association for fire department use and benefit.

Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given.

Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law.

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands for the purposes of developing a wastewater treatment plant.

Relates to increasing the membership of the special district operations and development committee; provides that the committee shall consist of no less than nine members and no more than fifteen.

Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years.

Permanently requires that the first installment of serial bonds mature not later than two years after the date of such bonds; provides that principal installments remaining unpaid on bonds may be called for redemption prior to their date of maturity in such amounts, at such times in such manner and pursuant to such terms as may be determined by the finance board of a municipality, school district or corporation at the time of the issuance thereof; repeals provisions that permanently eliminate the requirement that municipalities provide from current funds an amount equal to at least 5% of the estimated cost of each capital improvement (excluding from such cost state or federal grant funding and certain benefited area assessments) prior to the issuance of bonds or bond anticipation notes to finance such capital improvement.

Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions providing centralized service to political subdivisions and the authority of the commissioner of general services to aggregate purchases of energy.

Relates to requiring coverage for volunteer firefighters for full cancer screenings upon entry of service to a fire department or fire company and annually thereafter; provides that the costs of such screenings shall be covered by the state.

Treats lease payments made by the East Greenbush Fire District for real property the same as bond payments without the adoption of a proposition.

Expands the purposes of the Putnam Lake Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association to be to promote friendly association for the betterment of the members of the corporation; to promote relations between the members of the corporation and the local community; to provide relief, aid and assistance to those members and their families who by reason of age, ill-health, injury, disability or financial hardship or vulnerability are deemed worthy of such assistance; to provide for the health and safety of the members of the corporation; to maintain suitable headquarters for the members of the corporation; to acquire real and personal property such as may be necessary for the purposes set forth in this clause; to study and disseminate among the members of the corporation the most efficient manner of fighting fires; and to promote the volunteer fire service within the territory now served or which may hereafter be served by the Putnam Lake Fire Department, Inc.

Relates to local government borrowing practices and mandate relief; extends certain provisions relating to providing relief to local governments for certain mandated programs and services to 2027.

Authorizes the town of Eden, county of Erie, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of providing needed resources to the existing parks within such town.

Ratifies and confirms the creation of water district number 14 of the town of Monroe, made up of the water system previously owned and operated by Orchard Hill Water Company and which has been owned and operated by the town of Monroe by mandate from the public service commission since 2013; authorizes the issuance of bonds or notes by such town to finance certain inter-fund borrowings by such water district.

Expands the training time for local municipalities in relation to the open meetings law; requires at least one hour of such training be provided by the committee on open government or an appropriate entity in relation to compliance with the open meetings law and if not provided, a justification shall be given.

Includes the county of Orange within the definition of a designated community for purposes of community preservation funds.

Requires towers to clean up any debris in the surrounding area resulting from the vehicles they are towing and tow trucks to be equipped with the appropriate equipment for such clean up efforts.

Includes lakes in adopt-a-municipal park, shoreline or roadway programs.

Relates to the trustees of the Freeholders and the Commonalty of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk; provides that the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton have and shall continue to have the authority to enforce the public's easement and access upon the ocean beaches within the town of Southampton, including all rights of the public with respect to the said ocean beaches which were conferred upon them by the Dongan Patent of 1686; defines "ocean beaches".

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

Defines the term "tennis facilities" to mean places that provide programming and services related to tennis and other sports which require the use of racquets or paddles to strike balls or objects in relation to authorization for the town of Greenburgh to lease certain park lands for tennis uses.

Requires certain municipal planning boards and zoning boards of appeals to receive at least one hour of environmentally conscious planning training annually.

Requires applicants for financial assistance from industrial development agencies to provide information on the use of material and products manufactured or produced in this state and on the creation of local jobs.

Requires applicants for financial assistance from industrial development agencies to provide information on the use of material and products manufactured or produced in this state and on the creation of local jobs.

Requires floor area ratio requirements for buildings on farms to be no more restrictive than state requirements for zoning purposes.

Authorizes the town of Hempstead to transfer ownership of certain parkland constituting the town marina to the village of Freeport.

Requires that local governments comply with a detainer request issued by a federal law enforcement agency; requires that such local government not interfere with the ability of federal law enforcement officials to conduct enforcement activities at municipal or county jails in furtherance of their duty to enforce federal laws.

Repeals provisions relating to establishing the village incorporation commission; repeals provisions relating to the incorporation of villages.

Expands the law to include the preservation of regionally significant projects with respect to agencies drawing on funds for new building projects.

Enacts the "faith-based affordable housing act" for development on residential land; defines terms; provides that each village, town, and city shall allow the construction and occupation of residential buildings on any covered site up to the specified densities; provides that all residential buildings constructed pursuant to this section in a town, village, or city with fewer than one million inhabitants shall set aside twenty percent of the residential floor area for households earning an average of eighty percent of area median income; outlines the densities for New York city; makes related provisions.

Permits the appointment of fire chiefs and assistant chiefs who are employees of a fire district.

Relates to loans and grants by industrial development agencies; requires uniform criteria for evaluation and selection of an eligible entity for a loan; defines terms; outlines such criteria.

Provides that any requirement that undocumented immigrants who are seeking asylum in the United States be sheltered in a certain locality or localities shall only apply to those towns, cities, and counties that opt-in to such requirement through the adoption of a local law or ordinance; defines the term "sheltered" as including, but not limited to, being temporarily or permanently placed into housing, dwelling, or living quarters by a state or local governmental entity.

Relates to excluding renewable energy pilot projects and certain energy system-related payments in lieu of taxes from tax cap calculations, and to the establishment of a distributed generation energy development program that provides a single forum for state-level appeals for proposed distributed generation energy facilities.

Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland.

Establishes a youth outreach department within the state police, city, village, town, and district police departments, and sheriff departments for the purposes of designing and carrying out youth activities organized by the department.

Authorizes the town of Eden, county of Erie, to discontinue as parklands and alienate certain lands for the purpose of providing needed resources to the existing parks within such town.

Prohibits a member of the board of trustees and the mayor from being appointed to the board of assessors for a village.

Prohibits the siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity in assembly district 63; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.

Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program; enables municipalities to repair immediately hazardous code violations in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs in a reasonable time.

Authorizes the South Nassau Water Authority and the North Shore Water Authority to remain eligible for funding in state fiscal year two thousand twenty-four--two thousand twenty-five.

Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers.

Allows industrial development agencies to make grants to municipalities for open space preservation, parkland improvements and conservation easements where the municipal governing body finds that the grant encourages tourism or otherwise improves quality of life.

Allows for the examination of projects and/or actions by industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers.

Provides that a policy of this state should be to increase housing options and opportunities, including but not limited to affordable, and workforce and senior housing.

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.

Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Cayuga Heights; allows the village board of trustees of Cayuga Heights to appoint a person who resides in the county of Tompkins.

Authorizes the village of Greenwood Lake, county of Orange to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village.

Provides a period of probable usefulness for the acquisition, construction or reconstruction of or addition to a solar array or solar panel system, whether or not including buildings, land or rights in land, original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus, or the replacement of such equipment, machinery or apparatus.

Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner or coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction.

Authorizes funding to local government entities from the urban development corporation through the electric generation facility cessation mitigation fund for an additional three years.

Requires the return of all or a part of the financial assistance provided for a project where the project has material shortfalls or material violations; prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects already in development.

Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages containing one thousand five hundred persons or less; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the village law relating to the incorporation of villages, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7538 and A.7754.

Prohibits the governor, the legislature and state agencies from imposing residential housing zoning requirements on local governments without approval from the local government.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.

Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages containing one thousand five hundred persons or less; amends the effective date of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the village law relating to the incorporation of villages, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.7538 and A.7754.

Relates to the purchase of apparatus, materials, equipment and supplies; excludes contracts for services related to the installation, maintenance or repair of apparatus, materials, equipment and supplies from such purchasing authority.

Disallows county industrial development agencies from offering incentives in municipalities which have their own industrial development agency.

Requires county planning departments to review specific annexation petitions.

Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus to discontinue as reforested lands certain reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg.

Prohibits a municipality from relocating migrants from such municipality to another municipality in New York unless and until a resolution authorizing the relocation has been adopted by the governing bodies of both the municipality to which the migrants are to be relocated and the county in which the receiving municipality is located; mandates written notice prior to location; provides for a fine for violations.

Imposes consultation and reporting requirements for municipal corporations resettling, transporting or relocating non-detained migrants to another municipal corporation within the state, which is directed, administered, or funded by the federal government, the secretary of health and human services in the case of minors, the secretary of homeland security in the case of adults, or any municipal corporation within the state or agents thereof.

Establishes an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for code and ordinance violations for the city of Long Beach for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Relates to the powers of the New York state industrial development agency.

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.

Relates to the completion of training requirements for sheriffs and undersheriffs.

Authorizes the village of Sodus Point, in the town of Sodus, county of Wayne to allow golf carts on certain streets under the exclusive control and jurisdiction of such village.

Establishes a state disaster emergency grant and loan program administered by industrial development agencies for certain small businesses.

Establishes an independent inspector general in each county to oversee police activity and investigate allegations of police misconduct.

Prevents the use of funds, financial incentives, subsidies or tax exemptions for projects where the occupier of the project is not disclosed.

Authorizes local municipalities to establish or expand tourism improvement districts and provide services thereto.

Prohibits a city, town, village or of a joint water district from imposing certain levies, charges, taxes or assessments on a property which uses private well water for its water supply; prohibits a city, town or village from imposing certain levies, charges, taxes or assessments on a property which uses a septic system for treatment of waste water.

Repeals provisions related to requiring projects be located in a highly distressed area in order to qualify for certain financial assistance from an industrial development agency.

Establishes a procedure for the creation of new counties; outlines population and area requirements; requires a feasibility study, petition and referendum; makes related provisions.

Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.

Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.

Authorizes county comptrollers to audit industrial development authorities and local development corporations and to audit or review an audit prior to the renewal or renegotiation of a PILOT agreement by such entities.

Provides that a fire company may elect to include call firefighters within its membership who shall receive a stipend for each call that he or she responds to.

Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality.

Permits municipal corporations, fire districts, volunteer fire companies, police departments and school districts to sell and display symbols of hope in support of law enforcement, emergency medical personnel, the military, border patrol, firefighters, conservation officers and others.

Requires the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties for one year.

Provides that the police commissioner of any police department in a city having a population of one million or more shall not substantially alter the boundaries of police precincts, once fixed, or close, remove or relocate a police stationhouse unless at least thirty days prior to the date such action shall take effect, written notice of such action has been given to each local community board or board having jurisdiction over that part of the city directly affected by such proposed alteration, closure, removal or relocation.

Relates to advertising for bids and offers; letting of contracts; raises the aggregate amount for sealed bids above the current levels for commodities from $20,000 to $80,000 and public works from $35,000 to $125,000.

Relates to the purposes and powers of industrial development agencies and to improving the accountability and transparency of such agencies; makes conforming changes to the general municipal law; extends the bond issuance charge to the debt issued by not-for-profit corporations acting on behalf of the state or its political subdivisions; relates to the purposes and powers of local development corporations and certain other not-for-profit corporations thereof.

Authorizes the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk to amend an existing conservation easement to allow for rail access and service.

Provides that the fire commissioner of any fire department in cities having a population of one million or more shall not substantially alter the boundaries of fire companies, once fixed, or close, remove or relocate a fire company unless at least thirty days prior to the taking effect of such action written notice thereof has been given to each local community board or boards having jurisdiction over that part of the city directly affected by such proposed action or service reduction.

Authorizes the town of Massena to issue bonds to cover the cost of pension contributions due by the town for employees of the former Massena Memorial Hospital.

Establishes the volunteer fire departments capital fund under the office of fire prevention and control; appropriates funds for such capital fund.

Includes all counties and cities with a population of two hundred thousand or less within provisions which permit the apportionment of expense of municipal police department member training, thus allowing police departments to receive reimbursement of training costs if an officer is hired by another department.

Relates to publication of legal notices on the official Westchester county website.

Allows for the creation of a joint police department for the towns of Webb and Inlet; outlines requirements for local laws establishing rules and regulations for such department.

Authorizes industrial development agencies to provide technical and financial assistance to qualified residential facilities; defines "qualified residential facility" as any multi-family residential facility with units that are for sale, in any municipality located within the county of Westchester, and which is located in an urban renewal area.

Relates to the regulation of municipal shooting ranges, including limiting the hours of operation and addressing noise pollution; directs the department of health to conduct a study describing the contaminants and other pollutants in the ground and water bodies adjacent to certain shooting ranges.

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.

Relates to vested rights of property owners relating to the development of their land in the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester; requires notice by applicant to property owners within 250 feet of land development application; provides for the repeal of such provisions six years after they take effect.

Establishes community broadband districts for the purpose of expanding broadband services.

Prohibits a municipal corporation from prohibiting the issuing of a permit for the construction of any new commercial, residential, or mixed-use building on the basis that such building will be a mixed-fuel building.

Establishes a single industrial development agency in each region of the state.

Establishes the everyone can play grant program which allows for grants up to $100,000 to municipalities to cover the costs for the creation of handicap accessible aspects in new or existing recreation facilities.

Relates to providing notice of quorum requirements to applicants for building or site permits, variances, or subdivision plats at zoning board of appeals, local planning board, county planning board, and regional planning council meetings.

Awards grants to municipalities for any non-transportation related capital improvement projects with a maximum cumulative grant award not exceeding $250,000; makes an appropriation therefor.

Authorizes the town board of the town of Islip, county of Suffolk, to transfer funds from the Kismet street improvement district to a special fund for the collection and removal of trash from the hamlet of Kismet upon approval of such town board.

Provides for the applicability of provisions governing referral of certain municipal planning and zoning actions to county planning agencies or regional planning councils to all counties, including counties operating under a county charter, except counties wholly contained within a city.

Relates to Eastchester fire district elections; follows provisions of election law instead of town law for elections.

Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing.

Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities.

Relates to small wireless facility development; defines terms and sets standards and fees; provides a municipal corporation may require a wireless provider to repair all damage to a right of way directly caused by the activities of the wireless provider; provides courts of competent jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction to determine all disputes arising under this article.

Provides certified volunteer emergency medical technicians enhanced cancer disability benefits and death benefits for certain cancers.

Provides for a referendum on the question "Do you support the division of New York into two separate states?".

Provides that each fire district, department or company required to provide enhanced cancer disability benefits for volunteer fire fighters pursuant to section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law shall be entitled to reimbursement by the state for payments made in order to obtain the insurance coverage necessary to satisfy the requirements of section two hundred five-cc of the general municipal law.

Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus to discontinue as parklands and lease certain reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg.

Restricts the formation of new development agencies in Erie County; limits the authority of town industrial development agencies located within Erie County to exempt certain taxes.

Relates to the delivery of the good faith deposit following award of the bonds to the successful bidder; provides that a municipality, school district or district corporation may require that such deposit be made as a condition precedent to the consideration of a bid for the bonds.

Provides that if, as a result of services performed in line of duty during a state of emergency, a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker is exposed to or comes in contact with COVID-19, the chief engineer or other executive officer of the fire department or fire company or the captain or other executive officer of the ambulance department, volunteer ambulance company or ambulance district of which he or she is a member may authorize such volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker to obtain such examinations, tests, treatment and care as are immediately necessary to determine whether he or she is injured; further grants a presumption that exposure to COVID-19 caused partial or total disability or death.

Authorizes municipalities to contract for services through contracts let by any other governmental entity.

Authorizes political subdivisions to award public contracts to participants of a minority and women owned business enterprise program at a cost premium not to exceed ten percent of the lowest bid.

Establishes limits upon local government tax levies.

Establishes the city of White Plains industrial development agency and provides for its functions, powers, and duties.

Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program.

Requires plainly legible display of building numbers on all buildings to which numbers have been assigned; provides for a fine for violations of such requirement.

Authorizes municipalities to make purchases from other municipalities' contracts.

Enacts the "wireless broadband eligible facility permitting act" to provide for uniform regulation of certain wireless facilities.

Relates to preventing certain elected officials from being a member of an agency.

Authorizes the county of Westchester to establish by local law an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Creates a moratorium on the annexation of agricultural land by certain localities for an industrial use for one year.

Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages.

Relates to payments in lieu of taxes.

Relates to the classification of the town of Ulster in the county of Ulster.

Prohibits individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a business or entity doing business with an agency or industrial development authority.

Authorizes the city of Long Beach to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands to EW Offshore Wind Transport Corporation for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating a subterranean conduit and electrical distribution cable system, together with subterranean transition joint bays and link boxes, and appurtenances thereto, under city of Long Beach parkland.

Includes aquatic invertebrate species and aquatic plants within the meaning of aquatic growth control permitted by towns through improvement districts.

Repeals provisions relating to the Town of Niagara industrial development agency.

Exempts the East Dunkirk Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Laurel Hollow and allows the village board of trustees of Laurel Hollow to appoint a person who resides in the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk.

Relates to the Ocean Beach Volunteer and Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association, Inc's purpose and use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes.

Authorizes the town of Islip, county of Suffolk, to discontinue as parklands and lease certain lands to J.P. Supreme Caterers, Inc., d/b/a Nicky's on the Bay, or its successors and/or assigns, for operation of a fuel dock and restaurant.

Exempts the Southwood Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Upper Mountain, Inc.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Sanborn Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association, Inc.

Extends provisions which authorize the town of Islip to lease certain lands to a business corporation.

Authorizes the village of Washingtonville, Orange county, to issue serial bonds, subject to the provisions of section 10.10 of the local finance law, on or before November 30, 2024, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $4,500,000 for the specific object or purpose of liquidating the accumulated deficits of the general fund, water fund, sewer fund and capital projects fund.

Extends the expiration of provisions relating to including the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton, trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East Hampton and the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southold as municipal corporations for the purposes of permitting them to receive land at no cost from Suffolk County to be placed under their stewardship.

Requires the election of fire district commissioners to take place on the same date and at the same location as elections of school board members.

Repeals provisions relating to the Town of Niagara industrial development agency.

Authorizes the town of Orangetown to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Relates to the immediate incorporation of villages.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Wheatfield Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association.

Exempts the Leeds Hose Company No. 1, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Authorizes municipalities to establish an emergency repair pilot program enable municipalities to repair immediately hazardous code violations in buildings where the owner has not undertaken such repairs in a reasonable time.

Requires towers to clean up any debris in the surrounding area resulting from the vehicles they are towing and tow trucks to be equipped with the appropriate equipment for such clean up efforts.

Relates to the name and powers of the Oriskany Volunteer Exempt Firemen's Association of Oriskany, county of Oneida; changes the name to the Oriskany Volunteer Exempt Firefighters' Benevolent Association of Oriskany, county of Oneida and makes conforming changes; expands the powers of such association.

Extends provisions of law relating to the adoption and submission of an annual budget by the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton from January 1, 2024 until January 1, 2025.

Exempts the Crittenden Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. located in the town of Alden, county of Erie, from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members.

Prohibits municipal officers or employees from displaying political advertisements on or within public buildings and various other locations.

Extends the expiration of payments in lieu of taxes for Lido Beach in the town of Hempstead until June 30, 2025.

Changes the name of the Bellport Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association to the Bellport Volunteer Firefighter's Benevolent Association; decreases the board of trustees from 7 to 5 members; allows the association to use certain taxes collected and paid in furtherance of its purposes as stated in the association's charter.

Extends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to refunding bonds to 2026.

Expands the purposes of the South Salem Exempt Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Association to be to promote friendly association for the betterment of the members of the corporation; provide relief, aid and assistance to those members and their families who are injured, disabled or indigent; provide for the health and safety of the members of the corporation; maintain suitable headquarters for the members of the corporation; promote and safeguard the welfare of the members of the corporation; enhance the morale of the members of the corporation by providing social and recreational activities for members of the association; and promote the volunteer fire service within the territory now served or which may hereafter be served by the South Salem Fire Department, Inc.; relates to certain foreign fire insurance premium taxes.

Removes the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance certain costs of preparation of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement there must be a waiting period of at least one year authorizing the undertaking of the capital improvement.

Prohibits the siting and construction of battery energy storage systems and related facilities, systems, infrastructure, and substations of any scale and possessing any storage capacity in assembly district 64.

Provides a 10 year period of probable usefulness for broadband and related telecommunications infrastructure.

Authorizes local governments, by local law, rule or executive order, to require performers, athletes, employees, attendees, and/or any other person or category of persons be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter a place of entertainment.

Provides for the dissolution of the Town of Concord industrial development agency.

Relates to assessment of certain land parcels for the purposes of determining payments to eligible school, fire, fire protection, and ambulance districts; removes requirement that such assessments be approved by the commissioner of taxation and finance in the same manner as state lands.

Authorizes the village of Freeport, county of Nassau, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands.

Requires a ".gov" domain name for websites maintained by a county.

Relates to the full-time status of the district attorney of Hamilton county.

Authorizes the town of Chester to establish community preservation funds; establishes a real estate transfer tax with revenues therefrom to be deposited in said community preservation fund.

Incorporates the Croton Falls Volunteer Fire Department Benevolent Association; provides for its powers and duties.

Requires notification of the expiration of a PILOT agreement to be delivered to the affected tax jurisdiction two years prior to the expiration of such agreement or immediately upon early termination.

Makes technical corrections to provisions of law relating to county-wide shared services panels.

Authorizes the discontinuance of public parking on certain land in the village of Pelham.

Relates to the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Westbury.

Requires fees charged by municipal industrial development agencies be the same as those charged by the county's industrial development agency.

Extends provisions of law relating to providing local governments greater contract flexibility and cost savings by permitting certain shared purchasing among political subdivisions from July 31, 2023 until June 30, 2026.

Designates the Southampton Village Ocean Rescue as an emergency rescue and first aid squad pursuant to the general municipal law; permits members to display green lights on motor vehicles when engaged in emergency operation pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law.

Extends the boundaries of the Woodmere fire district to include the village of Woodsburgh.

Exempts the Ardsley Volunteer Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Provides for qualifications to hold certain positions in the village of Scarsdale.

Exempts the Bushnell's Basin Fire Department, in the town of Perinton, county of Monroe from the forty-five percent limit on non-resident members.

Exempts the Camillus Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Allows for the county of Albany to impose an additional ninety-five cent surcharge per access line per month on the customers of every wireless service supplier within Albany county to pay for costs associated with maintaining the 911 emergency telephone system.

Relates to the number and description of courses in the right of way easement granted by the village of Saugerties to the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.

Provides that new shared services actions in an approved and submitted county-wide shared services property tax savings plan may be eligible for funding to match savings from such action, subject to available appropriation.

Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.

Excludes indebtedness for the construction of sewage facilities contracted prior to 2034 in determining current local debt limitation.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Lewiston Fire Company No. 2.

Relates to authorizing the city of Buffalo and the village of Angola to correct a property line between certain properties lying within the town of Evans which was formerly parkland.

Provides a thirty year period of probable usefulness for lead service line replacement programs as a capital asset.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Sanborn Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association, Inc.

Authorizes the incorporated village of Mineola, county of Nassau, to establish and operate a commercial sanitation district and levy a separate tax on properties within such district to fund the expenses and obligations of such district.

Relates to the classification of the town of Ulster in the county of Ulster.

Authorizes the village of Mineola, county of Nassau, to alienate certain parklands for use in the village of Mineola public water supply system and replace such alienated parkland with a new, dedicated parkland.

Authorizes the county of Suffolk to transfer ownership of certain parkland under the James Creek to the town of Southold for management and administration.

Prohibits individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a business or entity doing business with an agency or industrial development authority.

Authorizes a city, town or village to establish a program whereby a building permit may be issued based upon certification by a registered architect or professional engineer.

Exempts the Ardsley Volunteer Fire Department from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Authorizes the village of Voorheesville, county of Albany, by resolution to appoint the office of clerk, treasurer, clerk-treasurer, deputy clerk, deputy clerk treasurer, and building inspector who do not reside within such village.

Makes technical corrections to provisions of law relating to county-wide shared services panels.

Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality.

Authorizes the posting by each municipality of turtle crossing signs on local roads located within such municipality; empowers the state commissioner of transportation to develop and implement rules and regulations authorizing municipalities to post turtle crossing signs on local roads located within the municipality.

Extends provisions of law relating to providing local governments greater contract flexibility and cost savings by permitting certain shared purchasing among political subdivisions from July 31, 2023 until June 30, 2026.

Prohibits municipal officers or employees from displaying political advertisements on or within public buildings and various other locations.

Establishes a program to address the legalization of specified basements and cellars and the conversion of other specified basements and cellars in a city with a population of one million or more.

Authorizes a city, town or village to establish a program whereby a building permit may be issued based upon certification by a registered architect or professional engineer.

Relates to youth programs sponsored by fire departments; provides that participants may respond to an emergency or hazardous activity, but shall remain in an appropriate and safe designated area that has been established by the chief or officer in charge; provides such participants cannot respond to an emergency on a vehicle using lights and/or sirens; provides such participants may not enter a burning structure; protects volunteer fire departments and fire companies from certain criminal and civil liability potentially arising from the operation of a youth program.

Expands the use of foreign fire insurance premium taxes by the Volunteer and Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Association of Lewiston Fire Company No. 1.

Establishes the Nassau county and Queens county border task force to review jurisdiction and boundary disputes.

Establishes the Nassau county and Queens county border task force to review jurisdiction and boundary disputes.

Authorizes the town of Massena to issue bonds to cover the cost of pension contributions due by the town for employees of the former Massena Memorial Hospital.

Authorizes the town of Webster, county of Monroe, to alienate certain lands used as parkland by the Candlewood Park District and to dedicate certain other lands as parkland for use by the Bear Creek park district.

Prohibits the governing board of a municipal corporation from adopting any law, ordinance, regulation or policy that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, the connection or reconnection of a utility service to a customer based upon the type or source of energy to be delivered to the customer.

Allows counties to borrow from a line of credit to finance daily operations and projects.

Relates to preventing certain elected officials from being a member of an agency.

Authorizes municipalities in a pilot emergency repair program to add unpaid emergency repair charges and housing code violation penalties, costs and fines to such municipalities' annual tax levy.

Authorizes the village of Perry, county of Wyoming to hire a planning board member, zoning board of appeals member and zoning officer who are not residents of such village.

Authorizes the incorporated village of Mineola, county of Nassau, to establish and operate a commercial sanitation district and levy a separate tax on properties within such district to fund the expenses and obligations of such district.

Authorizes the town board of the town of Islip, county of Suffolk, to transfer funds from the Kismet street improvement district to a special fund for the collection and removal of trash from the hamlet of Kismet upon approval of such town board.

Expands the law to include the preservation of regionally significant projects with respect to agencies drawing on funds for new building projects.

Allows for the creation of a joint police department for the towns of Webb and Inlet; outlines requirements for local laws establishing rules and regulations for such department.

Relates to the delivery of the good faith deposit following award of the bonds to the successful bidder; provides that a municipality, school district or district corporation may require that such deposit be made as a condition precedent to the consideration of a bid for the bonds.

Permanently requires that the first installment of serial bonds mature not later than two years after the date of such bonds; provides that principal installments remaining unpaid on bonds may be called for redemption prior to their date of maturity in such amounts, at such times in such manner and pursuant to such terms as may be determined by the finance board of a municipality, school district or corporation at the time of the issuance thereof; repeals provisions that permanently eliminate the requirement that municipalities provide from current funds an amount equal to at least 5% of the estimated cost of each capital improvement (excluding from such cost state or federal grant funding and certain benefited area assessments) prior to the issuance of bonds or bond anticipation notes to finance such capital improvement.

Relates to the trustees of the Freeholders and the Commonalty of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk; provides that the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton have and shall continue to have the authority to enforce the public's easement and access upon the ocean beaches within the town of Southampton, including all rights of the public with respect to the said ocean beaches which were conferred upon them by the Dongan Patent of 1686; defines "ocean beaches".

Relates to the reporting of alienation of municipal parkland.

Requires solar arrays on certain eligible municipal buildings; defines "eligible municipal building" to be a building which, with no major modification, could successfully house solar arrays; exempts such expenditures from provisions of the tax cap.

Makes permanent provisions creating a presumption relating to certain lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters.

Relates to prohibiting the use of funds, financial incentives or subsidies where facilities or property are used primarily for e-commerce storage and transfers, or the facilitation thereof.

Removes the requirement that where a municipal corporation, school district or district corporation issues indebtedness to finance certain costs of preparation of plans and specifications for a proposed capital improvement there must be a waiting period of at least one year authorizing the undertaking of the capital improvement.

Relates to notice to the commander of a military station of certain municipal actions that occur within 3000 feet of the property to be affected by the proposed action.

Establishes a single industrial development agency in each region of the state.

Requires a municipality to give notice to an adjacent municipality of the adoption or amendment of certain zoning ordinances or local laws that affect parcels of land within 500 feet of the adjacent municipality.

Requires absentee ballots for fire district elections, including, but not limited to, all projects or mandatory, permissive or special referendums which require a vote by qualified residents of such fire district; provides that a qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under certain circumstances and lays out such criteria; requires that an application must be received by the district clerk no earlier than the thirtieth day before the election for which an absentee ballot is sought; makes related provisions.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.

Establishes the payment of certain volunteer firefighter and volunteer ambulance worker death benefits shall be within ninety days of the filing of application to receive such death benefit.

Relates to utilizing community preservation funds for acquisitions.

Relates to authorizing the appointment of an additional associate village justice by villages.

Limits the authority of cities, villages and towns to impose certain zoning requirements.

Allows for the examination of industrial development agencies and not-for-profit corporations by county comptrollers.

Relates to the establishment of special districts for general ambulance services in any county, city, town or village located within the Adirondack park; requires a report on issues of volunteer firefighter and ambulance services staffing.

Establishes the "Defund Municipalities that Defund the Police Act" which provides for a withholding of a certain amount of state funding for a defunding municipality.

Permits municipal corporations, fire districts, volunteer fire companies, police departments and school districts to sell and display symbols of hope in support of law enforcement, emergency medical personnel, the military, border patrol, firefighters, conservation officers and others.

Authorizes the town of Oyster Bay to adopt a local law establishing an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Relates to conflicts of interest of municipal officers and employees, codes of ethics and boards of ethics; permits local codes of ethics to prohibit activities expressly permitted by article 18 of the general municipal law.

Authorizes local governments, by local law, rule or executive order, to require performers, athletes, employees, attendees, and/or any other person or category of persons be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter a place of entertainment.

Authorizes the county of Cattaraugus to transfer and convey reforested lands in the town of Perrysburg to the state of New York.

Amends the approval process for projects of the Nassau county industrial development agency in the village of Hempstead; provides that the IDA adopt guidelines, approved by the governing body of the village with respect to approval of projects within Hempstead.

Requires municipalities to maintain municipal websites.

Provides that a local law adopted by a town and subject to a referendum on petition shall be conducted as a permissive referendum.

Authorizes the county of Nassau to extend the lease or permit on the park lands it was previously authorized to lease.

Provides that for villages that hold their general election on the general election day in November, if such petition be filed on or after the first day of June and on or before the first day of August, a proposition for the approval of such act or resolution shall be submitted at the general village election date in November of that year; makes related provisions.

Relates to the acquisition of real property by eminent domain and the methods for calculating compensation for such acquisition.

Enhances the flexibility within the county-wide shared services initiative; provides an additional representative to the county-wide shared services panels to represent the school district of such county.

Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community preservation funds and community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.

Authorizes the town of Oyster Bay to adopt a local law establishing an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.

Prohibits the selling or displaying of symbols of hate by municipalities, fire districts, volunteer fire companies, police departments and school districts.

Allows for a program sponsor to amend a point system as part of a service award program.

Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton from two to four years; provides for the staggering of such terms of office; further provides that at the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years and the remaining four successful candidates shall hold office for a term of two years.

Exempts the village of Briarcliff Manor fire department, within the village of Briarcliff Manor, county of Westchester, from the requirement that the percentage of non-resident fire department members not exceed forty-five percent of the membership.

Authorizes and legalizes Albany county to issue refund bonds for serial bonds the county issued for the purpose of undertaking certain improvements to the Albany county nursing home.

Extends the town of Warwick preservation funds and the tax on real estate transfers in the town of Warwick until 2050.

Authorizes the increase of the number of town justices to three in the town of Rotterdam, Schenectady county.

Authorizes the town of New Castle, county of Westchester, to alienate and discontinue the use of certain parklands and to dedicate certain other lands conveyed to the town from Vivek and Chitra Agastya as parklands.

Relates to the sale of municipal obligations by the county of Erie.

Establishes that an official of the municipality may not serve as a compensated officer, agent or employee of the agency.

Relates to the Peconic Bay region community preservation fund; includes the preservation of historic property; permits adaptive reuse of such properties that is consistent with the historic character of the property, while maximizing public use to the maximum extent practicable; makes related provisions.

Extends the expiration of provisions relating to including the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southampton, trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of East Hampton and the trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the town of Southold as municipal corporations for the purposes of permitting them to receive land at no cost from Suffolk County to be placed under their stewardship.

Extends the county-wide shared services initiative and enhances the flexibility within.

Incorporates the East Amherst Fire Department Benevolent Association; provides for its powers and duties.

Extends provisions of law relating to the issuance of land installment purchase obligations from July 1, 2021 until July 1, 2031.