N.Y. County Law § 225-a: Fire training and mutual aid programs

§ 225-a. Fire training and mutual aid programs. 1. In order to develop

and maintain programs for fire training, fire service-related activities

and mutual aid in cases of fire and other emergencies in which the

services of firefighters would be used and to cooperate with the office

of fire prevention and control in furthering such programs, the board of

supervisors of any county may create a county fire advisory board and

may establish the office of county fire coordinator.

2. A county fire advisory board shall consist of not less than five

nor more than twenty-one members, each of whom shall be appointed by the

board of supervisors for a term of not to exceed one year, two years or

three years. Such terms of office need not be the same for all members.

It shall be the duty of such board to cooperate with the office of fire

prevention and control in relation to such programs for fire training,

fire service-related activities and mutual aid; to act as an advisory

body to the board of supervisors and to the county fire coordinator, if

any, in connection with the county participation in such programs for

fire training, fire service-related activities and mutual aid and in

connection with the county establishment and maintenance of a county

fire training school and mutual aid programs in cases of fire and other

emergencies in which the services of firefighters would be used; to

perform such other duties as the board of supervisors may prescribe in

relation to fire training, fire service-related activities and mutual

aid in cases of fire and other emergencies in which the services of

firefighters would be used. The members of such board shall be county

officers, and shall serve without compensation.

3. If the office of county fire coordinator is created in any county,

the board of supervisors thereof shall appoint a county fire

coordinator. It shall be his or her duty to administer the county

programs for fire training and mutual aid in cases of fire and other

emergencies in which the services of firefighters would be used; to act

as a liaison officer between the board of supervisors and the county

fire advisory board and the fire fighting forces in the county and the

officers and governing boards or bodies thereof; and to perform such

other duties as the board of supervisors shall prescribe. The county

fire coordinator shall be a county officer and the amount of his or her

compensation, if any, shall be fixed by the board of supervisors.

4. A member of the board of supervisors, the county fire coordinator,

or a deputy county fire coordinator appointed pursuant to the provisions

of section four hundred one of this chapter, may be appointed as a

member of the county fire advisory board, but shall receive no

additional compensation for services performed as a member of such

advisory board.

5. Where, pursuant to section one hundred eighty-four of the town law,

a town has contracted with an incorporated fire company to furnish fire

protection within a fire protection district, the respective county may

acquire by gift or purchase suitable apparatus and appliances for use in

such district and in conjunction with the county mutual aid program and

may contract with said incorporated fire company for operation,

maintenance, and repair of same and for the furnishing of fire

protection in such district.