2020 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers
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.