Bill Text: NY A07870 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the increase of the number of town justices to three in the town of Rotterdam, Schenectady county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - signed chap.269 [A07870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07870-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7870--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to authorizing the increase of
          the  number  of  town  justices  in the town of Rotterdam, Schenectady
          county

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 20 of the town law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph (r) to read as follows:
     3    (r) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general,  special  or  local
     4  law  to the contrary, the town board of the town of Rotterdam, county of
     5  Schenectady may adopt a resolution, subject to a  permissive  referendum
     6  as provided by article seven of this chapter, at least one hundred fifty
     7  days  prior  to  any  biennial election determining that such town shall
     8  have three town justices. If the town board  of  such  town  shall  have
     9  adopted  such  a resolution and no petition shall have been filed within
    10  the time specified for a referendum thereon, or if  a  majority  of  the
    11  votes  cast on any such proposition submitted to vote of the electors be
    12  in the affirmative, the  electors  of  such  town  shall  elect  at  the
    13  succeeding  biennial  election, and quadrennially thereafter, such addi-
    14  tional town justice for a term of four years beginning on the first  day
    15  of January next succeeding such biennial town election.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11467-02-1