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The services provided by these districts range from such basic social needs as hospitals and fire protection, to the less conspicuous tasks of mosquito abatement and upkeep of cemeteries. The Census Bureau classification of special district governments covers a wide variety of entities, most of which are officially called districts or authorities.
Enrollment in volunteer fire departments has dipped 10% in each of the past two decades, making LOSAPs and other recruitment tools extremely important to the communities that count on the nations more than 30,000 fire departments. A LOSAP is exempt from Internal Revenue Code §457 as a result of the passing of the Small Business Job Protection ...
At the 51st State Firemen's Convention held in Hudson in 1923, a resolution signed by the Presidents and Secretaries of both the Volunteer Firemen's Association and the Exempt Firemen's Association of the City of New York said that if the State Association of the Firemen's Home would authorize the erection of a suitable building for a museum ...
Section 38 of the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 was the first law to provide a tax-exemption for fraternal beneficiary societies. [116] The tax-exemption was later codified as section 501(c)(8) with the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. [117]
Aug. 24—KEYSER, W.Va. — Mineral County Commissioners agreed Tuesday to explore reinstating an annual auditing schedule for the county's 11 volunteer fire departments. Commissioner Jerry ...
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire station when their services ...
Volunteer fire departments respond to the same types of emergencies as paid, professional firefighters. About 70% of Ohio's fire departments are staffed by volunteers who play a critical role in ...
The bill passed in July 2009, making the FJVFC the 24th fire department in the state of NY to receive such an exemption. In 2011, Chief Alden Miller found child pornography on the company computer, which he turned into the State Police. A volunteer at the company, Randolph Billington, was arrested for allegedly downloading the material. [11]