N.Y. Town Law Section 176-E
Training requirements for fire commissioners

Each fire commissioner shall attend and successfully complete a commissioner-specific state-approved training course within two hundred seventy days of the taking of such office. The course will contain training related to legal, fiduciary, financial, procurement, and ethical responsibilities and such other disciplines as may be prescribed by the state comptroller. Such course shall be prescribed and certified in rules promulgated by the state comptroller. The manner, frequency, and duration of such course shall be established by such rules. Course materials should be made available upon request. When approved by the board of fire commissioners in advance of a commissioner attending such training course, the actual and necessary expenses incurred by a commissioner in successfully completing the training required by this section shall be a charge against the fire district.

Source: Section 176-E — Training requirements for fire commissioners, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/TWN/176-E (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

170
Establishment and extension of fire, fire alarm and fire protection districts 171
Petition and hearing 172‑A
Alteration of boundaries of fire districts 172‑C
Alteration of boundaries of fire protection district 172‑E
Change of name of fire district 172‑F
Resolution and hearing for diminution of fire district boundaries 172‑G
Filing of determination 173
Filing of determination 174
Fire district officers 175
Election of fire district officers 175‑A
Registration for voters 175‑B
Absentee ballots for fire district elections 175‑C
Notice of hearings and elections 176
Powers and duties of fire district commissioners 176‑A
Duties of chief and assistant chiefs of fire department of fire district 176‑B
Volunteer members of fire district fire companies 176‑C
Removal of fire commissioners 176‑D
Funding of fire districts 176‑E
Training requirements for fire commissioners 177
Powers and duties of fire district treasurer 177‑B
Powers and duties of deputy fire district treasurers 177‑C
Powers and duties of the director of purchasing 178
Powers and duties of fire district secretary 178‑A
Expenses incurred in attending town and county officers training school 178‑B
Expenses of the association of fire districts of the state of New York 178‑C
Expenses of fire district officers, officials and employees 178‑D
Costs, expenses and damages a fire district charge in certain cases 179
Special district elections to vote upon appropriations 180
Actions and proceedings against fire districts 181
Annual budget and levy of taxes 181‑A
Budgetary controls 181‑B
Independent audit of fire districts 182
Effect of incorporation of village or city including lands within a fire district 183
Fire alarm districts 184
Fire protection districts 184‑A
Contract for water supply outside of fire districts 184‑C
Water supply outside of fire districts 186
Savings clause 187
Exclusion of a fire district from a water supply district 188
Use of surplus town moneys for purchase of fire apparatus for use in town fire districts 189
Fire inspection of property in contract areas
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Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 176-E’s source at nysenate​.gov

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