2019 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 5-A - Public Contracts
100 - Definitions.

§ 100. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "Political  subdivision"  means  a  municipal  corporation, school
  district, district corporation  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
  services.
2. "Fire company" means:
a.  A  volunteer fire company of a county, city, town, village or fire
  district fire department, whether or  not  any  such  company  has  been
  incorporated under any general or special law,
b.  A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters
  and which was incorporated under or is  subject  to  the  provisions  of
  section  fourteen  hundred  two  of  the not-for-profit corporation law,
  which is not included within paragraph a above, if such  corporation  is
  by law under the general control of, or recognized as a fire corporation
  by, the governing board of a city, town, village or fire district, or
c.  A fire corporation the members of which are volunteer firefighters
  and which  was  incorporated  under,  or  established  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of, any general or special law, which is not included within
  paragraphs a and b above, if  such  corporation  is  by  law  under  the
  general  control  of,  or  recognized  as  a  fire  corporation  by, the
  governing board of a city, town, village, fire district  or  a  district
  corporation other than a fire district.
3.  "Voluntary  ambulance service" means a voluntary ambulance service
  as defined in article thirty of the public health law and  possessing  a
  valid  statement of registration or possessing a valid ambulance service
  certificate pursuant to article thirty of the public health law.