Section 209-E. Fire mobilization and mutual aid plan

1. Plan. The state
  fire administrator shall prepare a state fire  mobilization  and  mutual
  aid  plan  which  may provide for the establishment of fire mobilization
  and mutual aid zones of the state. Upon filing of the plan in the office
  of the department of  state  such  plan  shall  become  the  state  fire
  mobilization and mutual aid plan.  Such plan may be amended from time to
  time in the same manner as originally adopted.
    2.  Regional  fire  administrators.  The  state fire administrator may
  appoint  and  remove  a  regional  fire  administrator  for  each   fire
  mobilization  and mutual aid zone established pursuant to the state fire
  mobilization and mutual aid plan. Before he enters on the duties of  the
  office, each regional fire administrator shall take and subscribe before
  an officer authorized by law to administer oaths the constitutional oath
  of  office,  which  shall  be  administered and certified by the officer
  taking the same without compensation and shall be filed in the office of
  the department of state.
    3. Regulations. The state fire administrator may make regulations  and
  issue  orders  which  he  may deem necessary to implement the state fire
  mobilization and mutual aid plan and carry  out  the  purposes  of  this
  section.
    4.  Powers.  Whenever  a  county, city, town, village or fire district
  shall request, or whenever the governor shall determine that the  public
  interest  so  requires,  the  state fire administrator shall possess and
  exercise the powers, functions and duties set forth in  the  state  fire
  mobilization and mutual aid plan.
    5.  Standard  thread.  The state fire mobilization and mutual aid plan
  shall prescribe a standard hose thread for the state, and  each  county,
  city,  town,  village or fire district not equipped with the same may be
  required either to  recut  its  threads  to  such  standard  or  provide
  adapters whereby the same may be brought to such standards.
    6. Records. The state fire administrator shall keep a permanent public
  record  of the activations of the state fire mobilization and mutual aid
  plan, showing how, when  and  where  it  was  activated  and  when  such
  activation was terminated.
    7.   Reimbursement   of   assisting  municipal  corporations  or  fire
  districts. Whenever the governor activates the state  fire  mobilization
  and mutual aid plan pursuant to subdivision four of this section, claims
  submitted  by  an  assisting  municipal corporation or fire district for
  expenses allowed by subdivision two of section  two  hundred  nine-g  of
  this  article made in performance of its duties on behalf of a receiving
  municipality or fire district pursuant to such plan may be reimbursed in
  the first instance by the state from any local assistance  appropriation
  established  for  such  purpose. Reimbursements of such claims from such
  appropriation may be made only upon certification of such claim  by  the
  state  fire  administrator  to  the  state comptroller and audit of such
  claim by the state comptroller prior to payment.  Expenditures for  such
  reimbursements  from  such appropriation shall be considered a liability
  for outside aid as described in  section  two  hundred  nine-g  of  this
  article  and  shall  be  repaid  by  the  municipality  or fire district
  receiving assistance pursuant to the state fire mobilization and  mutual
  aid plan.
    8.  Hazardous  materials  incident  plan. The state fire administrator
  shall prepare a hazardous materials incident plan which shall complement
  and become a part of the  plan  required  by  subdivision  one  of  this
  section. The plan shall provide for the mobilization and coordination of
  fire  service  resources in response to emergencies which involve or may
  involve hazardous materials  and  shall  establish  hazardous  materials
  incidents  response zones and criteria for recognized regional hazardous

  materials incidents response teams. The office of  fire  prevention  and
  control,  by  and  through  the  state  fire  administrator  or his duly
  authorized officers and employees, is authorized to  approve  grants  of
  funds  from  monies allocated and appropriated therefor for expenditures
  of municipal corporations for hazardous materials incidents planning and
  equipment, pursuant to applicable rules and regulations  promulgated  by
  the secretary of state and approved by the director of the budget.