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Title: 40A - MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES

Chapter: 14 - County fire marshal; appointment; salary.

40a:14-1: County fire marshal; appointment; salary.

40a:14-1.1: Creation of arson investigation unit.

40a:14-2: County fire marshal; powers and duties.

40a:14-3: Acting county fire marshal

40a:14-6: County fire marshal's powers not to conflict

40a:14-7: Creation and establishment of fire departments and forces

40a:14-7.1: Arson investigation unit

40a:14-9: General qualifications of members; temporary appointments; absences from duty.

40a:14-9.1: Requirement of residency in municipality; prohibition

40a:14-9.2: Municipalities wherein civil service operative; residency requirements

40a:14-9.4: Promotions; preference to resident

40a:14-9.6: Municipalities without civil service; promotions; preference to resident

40a:14-9.7: Continuance in service; persons appointed under repealed acts; non-observance of residency requirements

40a:14-9.8: Residency in state; requirement for employment

40a:14-9.9: Appointments to municipal fire department, force of certain firefighters.

40a:14-10.1: Residence requirements for persons discharged or released from the military service

40a:14-10.1a: Fire departments; priority of eligibility for initial appointment; preference, certain.

40a:14-12: Age requirements for members

40a:14-12.1: Fire signal system repairman or lineman; appointment to uniformed firefighting position

40a:14-12.2: Rights and benefits of appointees

40a:14-12.3: Membership in retirement system

40a:14-12.4: Appointment of firefighters under certain circumstances.

40a:14-13: Appointment of temporary members and officers; termination of temporary employment

40a:14-14: Delay in qualifying because of military service

40a:14-15: Temporary vacancy due to military service

40a:14-16: Leaves of absence with pay to certain members and officers

40a:14-17: Indeterminate terms of office

40a:14-18: Minimum salary for firemen in municipalities located in counties other than of the first or second class

40a:14-19: Suspension and removal of members and officers

40a:14-19.1: Definitions relative to certain firefighter retirement procedures for certain injured firefighters.

40a:14-20: Hearings

40a:14-21: Suspension pending hearing; commencement of hearing

40a:14-22: Review of disciplinary conviction, arbitration in non-civil service municipality by member, officer of fire department.

40a:14-23: Judicially determined illegal suspension or dismissal; member or officer entitled to recover salary; proviso

40a:14-24: Chaplains

40a:14-25: Decrease of force for reasons of economy

40a:14-26: Emergency assistance for fire and police protection from other municipality; payment; rights in event of casualty or death

40a:14-27: Special compensation for permanently disabled members or officers

40a:14-28: Defense for members or officers in any action or legal proceeding arising out of or incidental to performance of duties

40a:14-28.1: Applicability of "45-day" rule for violation of internal rules to paid members of fire departments.

40a:14-29: Promotion of members and officers in certain municipalities

40a:14-30: Removal from fire hazards of tangible personal property; custody; arrest of offenders

40a:14-31: Transfer of a fire patrol to a municipality

40a:14-32: Use of fire fighting equipment by training organizations

40a:14-33: Municipality may contribute money for general purposes of incorporated volunteer fire department

40a:14-34: Municipal appropriations to fire companies

40a:14-35: Fire protection from adjoining municipality

40a:14-36: Compensation for losses sustained by volunteer firemen

40a:14-37: Volunteer firefighters' life insurance.

40a:14-38: Board of commissioners may continue insurance for volunteer firemen

40a:14-39: Other compensation not to affect eligibility to receive insurance benefits

40a:14-41: Conversion of volunteer to paid fire department; referendum

40a:14-42: Appointment of volunteer firemen or other persons to paid positions

40a:14-43: Appointment of volunteer firemen or other persons to newly established paid fire department

40a:14-44: Appointment of volunteer firemen or other persons to a part-paid fire department

40a:14-45: Service credits and conditions upon appointments to paid or part-paid fire departments

40a:14-46: Two-platoon system in certain municipalities having a paid fire department and force

40a:14-47: Two-platoon system for fire department in certain municipalities; establishment; referendum

40a:14-48: Two-platoon system for fire department in cities of the first class; emergency service; compensatory time off

40a:14-49: Fifty-six hour week for members and officers; referendum

40a:14-50: Certain emergency service and compensation

40a:14-51: Emergency service; compensatory time off

40a:14-52: Schedule of hours of actual duty

40a:14-53: Traffic regulations in fire areas

40a:14-54: Firemen in the performance of their duties to have powers of police officers

40a:14-54.1: Authority at scene of fire of fire official in charge of supervision or direction of operations

40a:14-55: Definitions relating to fire departments and exempt firemen

40a:14-56: Exempt fireman certificate; eligibility.

40a:14-57: Verified list of nonexempt members to be filed with municipal clerk

40a:14-58: Members of volunteer fire company on disbandment entitled to exempt fireman certificates

40a:14-59: Issuance of exempt fireman certificates.

40a:14-60: Tenure of exempt firemen in office, position or employment of State, county, municipality, school board or board of education; removal upon charges af

40a:14-61: Exempt firemen entitled to certain rights, privileges or benefits

40a:14-62: Tenure of exempt fireman in office, position or employment of intermunicipal commissions

40a:14-63: Office or position held by an exempt fireman not to be abolished or changed or emoluments reduced to terminate services

40a:14-64: Tenure in office held by an exempt fireman

40a:14-65: Office not to be abolished for economy reasons or otherwise to terminate services of an exempt fireman having tenure; exceptions

40a:14-67: Intermunicipal fire departments and forces

40a:14-68: Contracts with volunteer fire companies; member holding public office.

40a:14-70: Fire district designation; procedure; election of commissioners

40a:14-70.1: Establishment of a volunteer fire company within a fire district; contract with volunteer fire company outside fire district

40a:14-70.2: Fire district to maintain Internet website, webpage; contents.

40a:14-71: Nominating petitions.

40a:14-72: Annual fire district elections

40a:14-72.1: Moving date of election for fire district; revision of boundary lines.

40a:14-72.2: Rules, regulations.

40a:14-73: Form of ballot

40a:14-74: Elections; notice; publication; eligibility of voters

40a:14-75: Use of voting machines

40a:14-76: Polls; hours

40a:14-77: Manner of conducting elections

40a:14-78: Appropriation to be voted upon, form of question

40a:14-78.1: Fire district budget; time of introduction; public hearing; notice

40a:14-78.2: Adoption of fire district budget; public hearing

40a:14-78.3: Amendments; hearing; notice

40a:14-78.4: Adoption of budget; time; advertisement

40a:14-78.5: Adoption of budget amendments.

40a:14-78.6: Fire district budget to provide separate sections.

40a:14-78.7: Separate items in operating appropriations section

40a:14-78.8: Separate items in fire district budget

40a:14-78.9: Transfer of appropriations between items.

40a:14-78.10: Reserve item transfers

40a:14-78.11: Emergency appropriations

40a:14-78.12: 3% limit

40a:14-78.13: Emergency appropriation resolution

40a:14-78.14: Deferred charge

40a:14-78.15: Financing of emergency appropriation

40a:14-78.16: Fiscal year

40a:14-78.17: Temporary budget

40a:14-79: Tax assessment

40a:14-80: Borrowing money in anticipation of revenue

40a:14-81: Board of fire commissioners; general powers

40a:14-81.1: Fire districts; paid positions; establishment; resolution; procedure for passage; publication

40a:14-81.2: Qualifications for appointment to paid position.

40a:14-81.3: Supervisory authority

40a:14-81.4: Employees and volunteer firemen; reimbursement for expenses and losses

40a:14-81.5: Travel expenses; advances

40a:14-82: Limitation of average hours of duty for uniformed members of fire district fire departments

40a:14-83: Leasing space in building of fire district

40a:14-84: Revenue for fire district purposes; limitations; meetings

40a:14-85: Acquisition of property and equipment for fire districts; limitations; referendum for issuance of bonds

40a:14-85.1: Appropriations by fire districts

40a:14-86: Voting on bond issue of fire district; issuance and sale

40a:14-86.1: Fire district bonds; bond anticipation notes

40a:14-87: Payments of interest and principal; inclusion in budget; borrowing to pay

40a:14-88: Compensation for members of boards of fire commissioners

40a:14-89: Fire district treasurer, custodian of money; bond; annual audit

40a:14-90: Enlargement of fire district

40a:14-90.1: Consolidation of fire districts by two or more municipalities.

40a:14-90.2: Consolidation of fire districts within municipality.

40a:14-91: Dissolution of fire district

40a:14-92: Cancellation of taxes or refunds on dissolution of fire district

40a:14-93: Illegally created fire district; abatements or refunds

40a:14-94: Formation of new municipalities; abolition of fire district; apportionment of assets and liabilities

40a:14-95: Establishment of Junior Firemen's Auxiliary

40a:14-96: Membership in Junior Firemen's Auxiliary, minimum age.

40a:14-97: Insurance coverage for members

40a:14-98: Rules, regulations governing Junior Firemen's Auxiliary.

40a:14-100: Section 40:47-51 of the Revised Statutes saved from repeal

40a:14-105.1: Volunteer firemen's song

40a:14-106: County police; establishment

40a:14-106a: 45-day filing deadline

40a:14-106.1: First or second class counties; grant of general authority by ordinance or resolution

40a:14-106.2: Training for officers; necessity

40a:14-106.3: Inapplicability to county park police department or system

40a:14-106.4: Appointment of sexual violence liaison officer by county police department.

40a:14-107: General powers of county police

40a:14-107.1: Employee benefits of county law enforcement officer in lawful exercise of statewide police powers

40a:14-108: Hours of service for uniformed members and officers; referendum

40a:14-109: Doorman and mechanic have rank of patrolman

40a:14-110: Minimum salary for county and county park policemen in counties other than of the first and second class

40a:14-111: Promotion of members and officers in certain cases

40a:14-112: Appearance as witness; no loss in compensation

40a:14-113: Leaves of absence with pay to certain members and officers

40a:14-114: Delay in qualifying because of military service

40a:14-115: Decrease of force for reasons of economy

40a:14-116: Special compensation for permanently disabled members or officers; conditions

40a:14-117: Defense for members or officers in any action or legal proceeding arising out of or incidental to performance of duties

40a:14-118: Police force; creation and establishment; regulation; members; chief of police; powers and duties

40a:14-118.1: Municipal police vehicles to be equipped with mobile video recording system.

40a:14-118.2: Rules, regulations.

40a:14-118.3: Use of body worn camera by law enforcement officers.

40a:14-118.4: Promulgation, revision of guidelines, directives.

40a:14-118.5: Body worn cameras, recordings, regulations concerning usage; terms defined.

40a:14-118.6: Appointment of sexual violence liaison officer by municipal police department.

40a:14-122: General qualifications of members of police department and force; temporary appointments; absences from duty

40a:14-122.1: Requirement of residency in municipality; prohibition

40a:14-122.2: Municipalities wherein civil service laws operative; residency requirements

40a:14-122.4: Promotions; preference to resident

40a:14-122.6: Promotions; preference to residents

40a:14-122.7: Continuance in service; persons appointed under repealed acts; non-observance of residency requirements

40a:14-122.8: Residency in state; requirement for employment

40a:14-123.1: Residence requirements for persons discharged or released from the military service

40a:14-123.1a: Police departments; priority of eligibility for initial appointment; preference, certain.

40a:14-127: Age requirements

40a:14-127.1: Reappointment of certain law enforcement officers.

40a:14-127.2: Other qualifications

40a:14-127.3: Rate of pension contributions

40a:14-128: Indeterminate term of office

40a:14-129: Promotion of members and officers in certain municipalities

40a:14-130: Promotion of members and officers in certain cases

40a:14-131: Minimum salary for policemen in municipalities located in counties other than of the first or second class

40a:14-132: Hours of service for uniformed members and officers; referendum

40a:14-133: Days of employment and days off; emergency

40a:14-134: Certain emergencies; compensation

40a:14-135: Appearance as witness; no loss in compensation

40a:14-136: Leave of absence without pay; retention of pension and retirement benefits

40a:14-137: Leaves of absence with pay to certain members and officers

40a:14-137.1: Policemen or firemen; accrued vacation pay; payment upon death or retirement

40a:14-138: Delay in qualifying because of military service

40a:14-139: Clerks

40a:14-140: Drivers and attendants of police vehicles; other personnel

40a:14-141: Chaplains

40a:14-142: Municipal prison keepers

40a:14-143: Decrease of force for reasons of economy

40a:14-144: Temporary appointments

40a:14-145: Appointment of temporary members and officers; general qualifications; termination of employment

40a:14-146.1: Security officers

40a:14-146.2: Current housing guards, patrolmen

40a:14-146.2a: New appointees

40a:14-146.3: Police powers

40a:14-146.4: Retirement system membership

40a:14-146.6: Identification card, badge or other identifying insignia; special law enforcement officers; differentiation from regular police

40a:14-146.7: Violations; penalty

40a:14-146.8: Short title

40a:14-146.9: Definitions

40a:14-146.10: Special law enforcement officers

40a:14-146.11: Training; classifications

40a:14-146.12: Uniforms

40a:14-146.13: Fees

40a:14-146.14: Special law enforcement officers, appointment, term, regulations

40a:14-146.15: Powers

40a:14-146.16: Limitations on hours

40a:14-146.17: Limitations on number, categories

40a:14-146.18: Residency requirement

40a:14-146.19: Establishment of housing authority police force by certain municipalities.

40a:14-146.20: Requirements for appointment as housing authority police officer.

40a:14-146.21: Training requirements for housing authority police officer.

40a:14-146.22: Wearing of nameplate, metallic shield; exception.

40a:14-146.23: Immunity from tort liability; benefits.

40a:14-147: Removal, suspension of police officer

40a:14-148: Hearings

40a:14-149: Suspension pending hearing; commencement of hearing

40a:14-149.1: Suspension of officer charged with offense

40a:14-149.2: Reinstatement and recovery of withheld pay

40a:14-149.3: Reimbursement of municipality of salary received during suspension by police officer if found guilty

40a:14-150: Review of disciplinary conviction, arbitration in non-civil service municipality by member, officer of police department.

40a:14-151: Judicially determined illegal suspension or dismissal; member or officer entitled to recover salary; proviso

40a:14-152: Members and officers shall have powers of peace officers and constables

40a:14-152.1: Municipal police officer; power of arrest for crime committed in his presence anywhere within state

40a:14-152.2: Immunity from tort liability; provision of benefits for police, law enforcement officer exercising Statewide police powers; exemptions; terms defined

40a:14-153: Records and badges of awards to members and officers

40a:14-154: Special compensation for permanently disabled members or officers; conditions

40a:14-155: Legal expenses of police officers

40a:14-156: Police assistance in other municipality; payment; rights in event of casualty or death

40a:14-156.1: Mutual police, fire aid in emergency, agreements between municipalities; interstate authority

40a:14-156.2: Members of police, fire department, volunteer fire company; powers, authority, immunity

40a:14-156.3: Injury or death benefits

40a:14-156.4: Suspension of acts to provide emergency assistance; declaration of civilian defense and disaster control emergency

40a:14-157: Public auction of property

40a:14-158: Special joint municipal police force

40a:14-159: Chapter 151 of the laws of 1958 saved from repeal

40a:14-159.1: Chapter 303 of the laws of 1969 saved from repeal

40a:14-160: Section 40:47-12 of the Revised Statutes saved from repeal

40a:14-161: Chapter 188 of the laws of 1959 saved from repeal

40a:14-162: Chapter 56 of the laws of 1962 saved from repeal

40a:14-163: Chapter 187 of the laws of 1964 saved from repeal

40a:14-164: Chapter 288 of the laws of 1966 saved from repeal

40a:14-172: Section 40:174-148 of the Revised Statutes saved from repeal

40a:14-176: Statutes repealed

40a:14-177: Attendance at State, national convention of certain organizations.

40a:14-178: Liability for training costs; terms defined.

40a:14-178.1: Liability for certain costs for training certain law enforcement personnel; definitions.

40a:14-179: Base salaries of police chief, deputy chief

40a:14-180: Appointment of certain county, municipal, sheriff's law enforcement officers.

40a:14-180.1: Appointment of certain municipal police officers.

40a:14-180.2: Appointment of certain county correctional officers.

40a:14-180.3: Title changes in career service.

40a:14-181: Adoption of guidelines for internal affairs by law enforcement agency

40a:14-181.1: Definitions regarding motor vehicle, traffic violations.

40a:14-181.2: Police ticket quota for motor vehicle violations prohibited; permitted use of statistics.

40a:14-182: Federal firefighters, certain; appointment.

40a:14-183: Short title.

40a:14-184: Definitions relative to retirement benefits for certain municipal emergency services volunteers.

40a:14-185: Establishment, termination of length of service award program, referendum.

40a:14-186: Length of service award programs, defined contribution programs.

40a:14-187: Abolishment, amendment of length of service award program, special vote.

40a:14-188: Provision of length of service award program not required; program requirements

40a:14-189: Award subject to contribution requirements.

40a:14-190: Maintenance of records.

40a:14-191: Annual certification list.

40a:14-192: Review of annual certification list.

40a:14-193: Existing programs deemed valid; conditions for continuation.

40a:14-194: Regulations.

40a:14-194.1: Additional penalties, fines

40a:14-195: County law enforcement crisis intervention services program.

40a:14-196: Availability of program.

40a:14-197: Provision of debriefing, counseling services.

40a:14-198: County crisis intervention services advisory council.

40a:14-199: Immunities, benefits of search, rescue teams.

40a:14-200: Definitions relative to suspension, termination of certain law enforcement officers, firefighters.

40a:14-201: Law enforcement officer, firefighter, suspension, termination, final determination, payment status.

40a:14-202: Hearing on complaint, charges, final disposition, appeal.

40a:14-203: Recommendation of administrative law judge, payment status.

40a:14-204: Submission of decision to Civil Service Commission.

40a:14-205: Final determination of appeal.

40a:14-206: Payment status during appeal of termination.

40a:14-207: Establishment of Law Enforcement and Firefighter Unit.

40a:14-208: Rules, regulations.

40a:14-209: Suspension, termination not subject to Title 11A, payment status.

40a:14-210: Appeal to arbitration, final determination, payment status.

40a:14-211: Rules, regulations promulgated by Public Employment Relations Commission.

40a:14-212: Reimbursement to employing agency.

40a:14-213: Short title.

40a:14-214: Employment protection for volunteer emergency responder.

40a:14-215: Appointment of EMTs by municipality.

40a:14-216: Reappointment of EMTs by municipality.