2012 New York Consolidated Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - (200 - 209-Z) FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN
209-EE - Adoption of a code of ethics and disclosure of interests by fire companies.

 
    §  209-ee. Adoption of a code of ethics and disclosure of interests by
  fire companies. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of general, special  or
  local  law to the contrary, every fire company that contracts with or is
  under the control of a county, city, town, village or fire  district  to
  provide  fire  protection or other emergency service, shall adopt a code
  of ethics. Such code shall set forth the standards of conduct reasonably
  expected.
    2. Any elected and/or appointed officer of a  volunteer  fire  company
  responsible for governance, including but not limited to a line officer,
  treasurer,  president, vice president and secretary, who has, will have,
  or later acquires an interest in or whose  spouse  has,  will  have,  or
  later  acquires an interest in any actual or proposed contract, purchase
  agreement,  lease  agreement  or   other   agreement,   including   oral
  agreements,  with the fire company of which he or she is a member, shall
  publicly disclose the nature and extent of such interest in  writing  to
  his  or  her  immediate  supervisor and to the governing body thereof as
  soon as he or she has knowledge of such actual or prospective  interest.
  Such  written  disclosure  shall  be  made  part of and set forth in the
  official record of the proceedings of such body.
    3. a. For the purpose of this section the term fire company shall have
  the  same  meaning  as  defined  in  section  three  of  the   volunteer
  firefighters' benefit law.
    b.  For  the  purpose  of  this section the term interest shall mean a
  direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing to an  elected
  and/or  appointed  officer  of  a  volunteer  company as the result of a
  contract with the fire entity which he or she serves. For  the  purposes
  of  this  article  an  elected  and/or  appointed officer of a volunteer
  company shall be deemed to have an interest in the contract of  (i)  his
  or  her  spouse, minor children and dependents, (ii) a firm, partnership
  or association of which such individual is a member or employee, (iii) a
  corporation of which such individual is an officer, director or employee
  and (iv) a corporation  any  stock  of  which  is  owned  or  controlled
  directly or indirectly by such individual.
    c. The disclosure requirement of subdivision two of this section shall
  not apply to the following:
    (i)  a  contract  with  a  corporation  in  which an individual has an
  interest by reason of stockholdings when less than five  per  centum  of
  the outstanding stock of the corporation is owned or controlled directly
  or indirectly by such individual; or
    (ii)  a  contract  in which an individual has an interest if the total
  consideration payable thereunder, when added to the aggregate amount  of
  all  consideration  payable  under contracts in which such person had an
  interest during the fiscal year,  does  not  exceed  the  sum  of  seven
  hundred fifty dollars.