2019 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers
202 - Certificate to Be Issued to Exempt Volunteer Firefighter.

§  202.  Certificate to be issued to exempt volunteer firefighter. Any
  person described in sections two hundred or  two  hundred  one  of  this
  article  shall be entitled to a certificate from the company in which he
  or she served or of which he or she was a member  at  the  time  of  its
  disbandment   which  shall  show  the  date  of  the  entrance  of  such
  firefighter upon his or her service, the period of his or  her  service;
  if  he or she was honorably discharged from such company the certificate
  shall so state; that he or she was  in  good  standing  in  his  or  her
  company  at  the time of applying for such certificate or at the time he
  or she was discharged therefrom; or that he or she was in good  standing
  in  his  or  her  company  at  the time of the disbandment thereof. Such
  certificate shall be  signed  by  the  president,  captain,  foreman  or
  secretary  of  the  company  and  shall be acknowledged by such officers
  before an officer commissioned to take acknowledgments, and  shall  also
  have  attached  thereto  a  certificate attested by the affidavit of the
  secretary, clerk or other person having the  custody  of  the  company's
  record  of  membership,  that  the  statements of fact contained in said
  certificate are true, and the  affidavit  and  acknowledgment  shall  be
  substantially in the following form:
 
  State of New York         )
                        ) ss.
  County of ............    )
 
On  this  ............  day of ........... , in the year ........... ,
  before me personally came ......................... , to me known and by
  me known to be the same  persons  described  in  and  who  executed  the
  foregoing  certificate  and  they severally duly acknowledged to me that
  they executed the same and the said .............................. being
  by me duly sworn, deposes and says, that he/she is .................  of
  the  company  aforesaid  and  is  the  custodian  of  the records of its
  membership and that the facts above stated relating to  the  service  of
  the person described in such certificate are true.
 
                                   ...................................
                                              Notary Public
 
Such  certificate  so attested shall in all courts of the state and in
  the offices of all persons clothed with power of appointment or  removal
  in  the service of this state and in the several cities, counties, towns
  and villages thereof, be  presumptive  evidence  of  the  facts  therein
  stated.