New York S 6377: Enacts the New York emergency responder act

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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6377
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SAVINO, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the New York
emergency responder act
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "New York emergency responder act".
3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 29-f to read
4 as follows:
5 § 29-f. The New York emergency responder act. 1. As used in this
6 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
7 (a) "Public official" shall mean any appointed or elected federal,
8 state or local official with executive responsibility in the jurisdic-
9 tion in which the emergency or event has occurred, and acting in his or
10 her official capacity.
11 (b) "Public safety official" shall mean any appointed or elected
12 federal, state or local official with executive responsibility to coor-
13 dinate public safety in the jurisdiction in which the emergency or event
14 has occurred, and acting in his or her official capacity.
15 (c) "Law enforcement official" shall mean any appointed or elected
16 federal, state or local official with executive responsibility to coor-
17 dinate law enforcement in the jurisdiction in which the emergency or
18 event has occurred, and acting in his or her official capacity.
19 (d) "Code enforcement official" shall mean any appointed or elected
20 federal, state or local official with executive responsibility to coor-
21 dinate building inspection in the jurisdiction in which the emergency or
22 event has occurred, and acting in his or her official capacity.
23 (e) "Declared emergency" shall mean any state disaster emergency
24 declaration or local emergency order proclamation, by a public official,
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of the occurrence or imminent threat of a disaster or rioting, catastro-
2 phe or similar public emergency, or in the event of reasonable apprehen-
3 sion of immediate danger thereof, and upon a finding by the public offi-
4 cial that the public safety is imperiled thereby.
5 (f) "Municipal corporation" shall mean a county, town, city or
6 village.
7 (g) "State department" shall mean those state government departments,
8 divisions or commissions empowered by the state to enter into contractu-
9 al agreements on behalf of the state.
10 (h) "State authority" shall mean a public authority or public benefit
11 corporation created by or existing under this chapter or any other law
12 of the state, with one or more of its members appointed by the governor
13 or who serve as members by virtue of holding a civil office of the
14 state, other than an interstate or international authority or public
15 benefit corporation, including subsidiaries of such public authority or
16 public benefit corporation.
17 (i) "Local authority" shall mean: (1) a public authority or public
18 benefit corporation created by or existing under this chapter or any
19 other law of the state whose members do not hold a civil office of the
20 state, are not appointed by the governor or are appointed by the gover-
21 nor specifically upon the recommendation of the local government or
22 governments; (2) a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with, sponsored
23 by or created by a county, city, town or village government; (3) a local
24 industrial development agency or authority of another local public bene-
25 fit corporation; (4) an affiliate of such local authority; or (5) a land
26 bank corporation created pursuant to article sixteen of the not-for-pro-
27 fit corporation law.
28 (j) "School district" shall mean any common school district, union
29 free school district, central school district, city school district, or
30 central high school district.
31 (k) "Special district" shall mean a town or county improvement
32 district, district corporation or other district established for the
33 purpose of carrying on, performing or financing one or more improvements
34 or services intended to benefit the health, welfare, safety or conven-
35 ience of the inhabitants of such district or to benefit the real proper-
36 ty within such district, and in which real property is subject to
37 special ad valorem levies or special assessments for the purposes for
38 which such district was established.
39 (l) "Emergency assistance" shall mean (1) any assistance or advice,
40 furnishing of construction, supplies, materials, equipment or labor; (2)
41 provision of structural, electrical, mechanical or other engineering
42 services rendered pursuant to article one hundred fort