Bill Text: NY A05539 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for community service as one of the punishments for the violation of a local law in a municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.216 [A05539 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05539-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5539--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Govern-
          ments in accordance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  reported  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT  to amend the municipal home rule law, in relation to punishment
          for the violation of a local law
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 10 of the munici-
     2  pal home rule law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (b) To provide for the enforcement of local laws by legal or equitable
     4  proceedings  which  are  or  may  be  provided  or authorized by law, to
     5  prescribe  that  violations  thereof  shall   constitute   misdemeanors,
     6  offenses  or infractions and to provide for the punishment of violations
     7  thereof by civil penalty, fine, forfeiture, community service, where the
     8  defendant has consented to the amount and conditions of such service, or
     9  imprisonment, or by two or more of such punishments, provided,  however,
    10  that  a  local  law  adopted pursuant to subdivision two of this section
    11  shall provide only for  such  enforcement  or  punishment  as  could  be
    12  prescribed  if  the  action  of the legislative body were taken by ordi-
    13  nance, resolution, rule or regulation, as the case may be.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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