New York Laws
Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages
189-F - Powers of Board of Commissioners.

§ 189-f. Powers of board of commissioners. The board of commissioners
shall have and exercise, with respect to such district, the applicable
powers and duties of a board of fire district commissioners as
prescribed by the town law, with respect to similar functions of a fire
district in a town and all of the provisions of article eleven of this
chapter shall be applicable to a joint fire district created pursuant to
this article. Such powers and duties of the board of district
commissioners are subject to the following restriction:

No real property or easement therein shall be acquired by the board of
commissioners without the approval of the village board or boards and
the town board or boards of each village or town in which any portion of
the district is situated. But this restriction shall not apply if, at
the meeting for the establishment of any such district hereafter
established, a resolution to that effect is adopted in the same manner
as the resolution for the establishment of the district is adopted.

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