Section 202. Certificate to be issued to exempt volunteer firemen

Any
  person described in sections two hundred or  two  hundred  one  of  this
  chapter  shall be entitled to a certificate from the company in which he
  served or of which he was a member at the time of its disbandment  which
  shall  show  the  date of the entrance of such fireman upon his service,
  the period of his service; if he  was  honorably  discharged  from  such
  company  the certificate shall so state; that he was in good standing in
  his company at the time of applying for such certificate or at the  time
  he  was  discharged  therefrom;  or  that he was in good standing in his
  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  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.