About the author

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• Author: Raymond S. Diraddo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RAYMOND S. DIRADDO

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n addition to authoring New York Fire District Ocers’ Guide updates,

Mr. DiRaddo practices municipal law in Western and Central New York

and represents numerous re districts and re departments. These districts

oversee full-paid, combination, and all-volunteer re departments.

Mr. DiRaddo is a frequent speaker and panel member at the semi-annual

meetings of the Association of Fire Districts of the State of New York, speaker

at the FASNY conference, and is a regular instructor for the mandatory six-

hour training for re district commissioners and the regional training session

sponsored by the Association of Fire Districts of the State of New York.

Mr. DiRaddo is currently the attorney for the Town of Wheatland, Monroe

County and the former town attorney for the Town of Greece—a town of over

90,000 people—where he oversaw a sta of three attorneys and several outside

law rms representing the town. He was responsible, like re attorneys, for the

legal representation of the town in all contract, litigation, and compliance matters.

Mr. DiRaddo is also a former Monroe County Legislator, a former Town of

Greece Councilman, and former Town Justice, where he was responsible for

the administration of justice within the town of Greece on all matters within

the jurisdiction of the New York Town Courts. This included arraignment

and preliminary hearing jurisdiction of all original felony matters, and trial

jurisdiction of all misdemeanors, trac violations, small claims, and local

ordinance violations occurring within the town of Greece. He was also the

Vice-President of the Monroe County Magistrates Association.

Mr. DiRaddo received his Juris Doctorate at the St. Louis University School

of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in

Physics from the Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.