A bill designed to give New York volunteer EMS and firefighters a break on local property and school taxes has been signed by the governor. The bill was put forward by Rockland State Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, carried in the Assembly by Ken Zebrowski and co-sponsored there by Assemblyman Mike Lawler. Rockland’s Director of Fire and Emergency Services, Chris Kear, says local volunteers will be pleased the governor finally signed this bill into law…
Rockland County Executive Ed Day says the legislation was long overdue…
For local volunteers to actually see any financial reward from any local government in the form of a tax credit of up to 10%, the county legislature and other local government entities would have to opt into the bill. Volunteers would have to have at least two years of service to qualify for the 10% exemption.