Bill Text: NY A01789 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the town supervisor to examine the dockets of the justice court on a quarterly basis to determine whether fines and fees have been paid to the proper officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in local governments [A01789 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01789-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1789
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to amend the town law, in relation to authorizing town supervi-
          sors to examine the dockets of  the  justice  court,  on  a  quarterly
          basis,  to  determine  whether fines and fees have been turned over to
          the proper officials
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  125  of  the town law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. The supervisor may, on or before the fifteenth day of April,  July,
     4  October and January, examine the criminal and civil dockets of each town
     5  justice  to  determine  whether the fines and fees therein shown to have
     6  been collected during the immediately previous quarter have been  turned
     7  over to the proper officials as required by law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03036-01-9
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