Bill Text: NY S01146 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage if the town maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to local governments [S01146 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01146-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1146--A Cal. No. 52 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is amended to 2 read as follows: 3 6. At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or 4 near the main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with the name 5 of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac- 6 ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon 7 the legal notices of the town. Such sign-board and, in any town that 8 maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high 9 speed internet connection, an electronic version of such sign-board 10 shall be one of the public places upon which any legal notice may be 11 posted. Towns which maintain a regularly and routinely updated website 12 and utilizes a high speed internet connection shall, to the extent prac- 13 ticable, maintain an electronic version of such sign-board and shall 14 post a link to the electronic version of the sign-board on its homepage. 15 An electronic version of such sign-board shall include a town website 16 page designed or intended to provide electronic access to public 17 notices. A town shall not be required to maintain an electronic sign- 18 board pursuant to this subdivision should the town incur additional 19 costs in order to comply. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06355-02-0
