2012 New York Consolidated Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - (200 - 209-Z) FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN
209-E - Fire mobilization and mutual aid plan.

 
    §  209-e.  Fire  mobilization  and mutual aid plan. 1. Plan. The state
  fire administrator shall prepare a state fire  mobilization  and  mutual
  aid  plan  which  may provide for the establishment of fire mobilization
  and mutual aid zones of the state. Upon filing of the plan in the office
  of fire prevention and control such plan shall  become  the  state  fire
  mobilization  and mutual aid plan. Such plan may be amended from time to
  time in the same manner as originally adopted.
    2. Regional fire administrators.  The  state  fire  administrator  may
  appoint   and  remove  a  regional  fire  administrator  for  each  fire
  mobilization and mutual aid zone established pursuant to the state  fire
  mobilization  and mutual aid plan. Before he enters on the duties of the
  office, each regional fire administrator shall take and subscribe before
  an officer authorized by law to administer oaths the constitutional oath
  of office, which shall be administered  and  certified  by  the  officer
  taking the same without compensation and shall be filed in the office of
  fire prevention and control.
    3.  Regulations. The state fire administrator may make regulations and
  issue orders which he may deem necessary to  implement  the  state  fire
  mobilization  and  mutual  aid  plan  and carry out the purposes of this
  section.
    4. Powers. Whenever a county, city, town,  village  or  fire  district
  shall  request, or whenever the governor shall determine that the public
  interest so requires, the state fire  administrator  shall  possess  and
  exercise  the  powers,  functions and duties set forth in the state fire
  mobilization and mutual aid plan.
    5. Standard thread. The state fire mobilization and  mutual  aid  plan
  shall  prescribe  a standard hose thread for the state, and each county,
  city, town, village or fire district not equipped with the same  may  be
  required  either  to  recut  its  threads  to  such  standard or provide
  adapters whereby the same may be brought to such standards.
    6. Records. The state fire administrator shall keep a permanent public
  record of the activations of the state fire mobilization and mutual  aid
  plan,  showing  how,  when  and  where  it  was  activated and when such
  activation was terminated.
    7.  Reimbursement  of  assisting  municipal   corporations   or   fire
  districts.   Whenever the governor activates the state fire mobilization
  and mutual aid plan pursuant to subdivision four of this section, claims
  submitted by an assisting municipal corporation  or  fire  district  for
  expenses  allowed  by  subdivision  two of section two hundred nine-g of
  this article made in performance of its duties on behalf of a  receiving
  municipality or fire district pursuant to such plan may be reimbursed in
  the  first instance by the state from any local assistance appropriation
  established for such purpose. Reimbursements of such  claims  from  such
  appropriation  may  be made only upon certification of such claim by the
  state fire administrator to the state  comptroller  and  audit  of  such
  claim  by  the state comptroller prior to payment. Expenditures for such
  reimbursements from such appropriation shall be considered  a  liability
  for  outside  aid  as  described  in  section two hundred nine-g of this
  article and shall  be  repaid  by  the  municipality  or  fire  district
  receiving  assistance pursuant to the state fire mobilization and mutual
  aid plan.
    8. Hazardous materials incident plan.  The  state  fire  administrator
  shall prepare a hazardous materials incident plan which shall complement
  and  become  a  part  of  the  plan  required by subdivision one of this
  section.  The plan shall provide for the mobilization  and  coordination
  of  fire  service  resources in response to emergencies which involve or
  may involve hazardous materials and shall establish hazardous  materials
  incidents  response zones and criteria for recognized regional hazardous

  materials incidents response teams. The office of  fire  prevention  and
  control,  by  and  through  the  state  fire  administrator  or his duly
  authorized officers and employees, is authorized to  approve  grants  of
  funds  from  monies allocated and appropriated therefor for expenditures
  of municipal corporations for hazardous materials incidents planning and
  equipment, pursuant to applicable rules and regulations  promulgated  by
  the secretary of state and approved by the director of the budget.