{"data":{"id":"us-ny/n.y.-general-municipal-law-100","jurisdiction":"us-ny","citation":"N.Y. General Municipal Law § 100","heading":"Definitions","body":"§ 100. Definitions. As used in this article:\n  1. \"Political subdivision\" means a municipal corporation, school\ndistrict, district corporation and board of cooperative educational\nservices.\n  2. \"Fire company\" means:\n  a. A volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire\ndistrict fire department, whether or not any such company has been\nincorporated under any general or special law,\n  b. A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters\nand which was incorporated under or is subject to the provisions of\nsection fourteen hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation law,\nwhich is not included within paragraph a above, if such corporation is\nby law under the general control of, or recognized as a fire corporation\nby, the governing board of a city, town, village or fire district, or\n  c. A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters\nand which was incorporated under, or established pursuant to the\nprovisions of, any general or special law, which is not included within\nparagraphs a and b above, if such corporation is by law under the\ngeneral control of, or recognized as a fire corporation by, the\ngoverning board of a city, town, village, fire district or a district\ncorporation other than a fire district.\n  3. \"Voluntary ambulance service\" means a voluntary ambulance service\nas defined in article thirty of the public health law and possessing a\nvalid statement of registration or possessing a valid ambulance service\ncertificate pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.","path":["General Municipal Law","Article 5-A. Public Contracts"],"source_url":"https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/laws/GMU/100","current_through":"2026-09-11","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:32:45Z","sha256":"56b95c69392b2066d2208693f38974642f263204d5e40229deea5e343e677272","source_id":"us-ny","stale":false,"prev":"us-ny/n.y.-general-municipal-law-99-z","next":"us-ny/n.y.-general-municipal-law-100-a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}