178-A - Expenses incurred in attending town and county officers training school.

§  178-a.  Expenses  incurred  in  attending  town and county officers  training school. The actual and necessary expenses incurred  by  a  fire  district  officer  or person duly elected as a fire district officer, in  attending a course of training for his respective office as provided  by  the  town  and  county officers training school of the state of New York  for the purpose of improving the administration of municipal affairs  in  the  town  and counties of the state, shall be a charge against the fire  district of which he is an officer or officer-elect. No person, however,  shall be allowed such expenses for attending a  regional  school  unless  his  district  shall  be  included  within  the  area  of such region as  established by the board of trustees of the  town  and  county  officers  training   school   of  the  state  of  New  York.  The  board  of  fire  commissioners, in lieu of auditing and allowing  the  claim  of  a  fire  district  officer or officer-elect for actual and necessary expenses for  travel in attending any  such  course  of  training,  may  determine  by  resolution  to  allow and pay such officer or officer-elect a reasonable  mileage allowance for the use  of  his  own  automobile  for  each  mile  actually  and  necessarily  traveled  by him in attending such course of  training.