New York Laws
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.

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