Bill Text: NY A02065 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limit the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates the rule that provides that whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, all other local referendum proposals are barred from the ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-04 - ordered to third reading cal.91 [A02065 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2065
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 13, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, FARRELL, GLICK, CLARK, DINOWITZ, MILL-
MAN, HIKIND, COLTON, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
COOK, JACOBS, McENENY, PHEFFER, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to repeal paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section
36 of the municipal home rule law, relating to limitations on the
submitting of a question to the qualified electors of a city when
there is a question submitted by a charter commission
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section 36
2 of the municipal home rule law are REPEALED.
3 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
REPEAL NOTE.--Paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section
36 of the municipal home rule law proposed to be repealed by this act
provides limitations including prohibition on submission by local law,
ordinance, resolution or petition of a question to the qualified elec-
tors of a city when any question is submitted by a charter commission.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05353-01-1
