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History
- Signed chap.471
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.403
- Substituted for A7196
- Referred to local governments
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.635
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- Referred to local government
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Authorizes ambulance services and/or emergency medical services operated jointly by municipalities to be provided within the boundaries of all such municipalities
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Dennis H. Gabryszak
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4206
Title of bill
An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to general ambulance services operated jointly by two or more municipalities
Purpose of bill
This bill clarifies the boundaries in which a municipality may provide an emergency medical service when the service is operated jointly by two or more municipalities.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the General Municipal Law section 122-b to add the words "or the municipalities acting jointly" to allow the boundary in which a municipality may operate an emergency medical service to include the physical boundaries of all municipalities who share the service.
Section 2 sets the effective date as immediately.
Justification
With the growing desire for smaller municipalities to share services for cost saving measures to the taxpayer and State, General Municipal Law Section 122-b has been used as a bar to consolidation of services.
Without clarification of how "jointly" should be applied as it is found in Section 122-b, the law has been applied to bar a single municipality from operating a service outside of its own physical boundary even when an intermunicipal agreement exists between multiple municipalities. Please see In The Matter of the Appeal by Cooperstown Medical Transport Inc. vs. Susquehanna Regional Emergency Medical Systems Council, Inc. (unpublished ALJ Report dated 11/17/10 to State Emergency Medical Services Council).
This Bill would overturn that decision and allow the municipality to operate within its own physical boundary as well as within the physical boundaries of the municipalities it has jointly contracted with to perform such services.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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