Bill Text: NY S03345 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the name of municipalities and subdivisions thereof to include the word swastika.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03345 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03345-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3345

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  limiting  the
          naming of municipalities and subdivisions thereof

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

     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 99-z to read as follows:
     3    §  99-z.  Naming  of  municipalities; limitations. No municipal corpo-
     4  ration, or any subdivision thereof, shall have  a  name  containing  the
     5  word swastika and any municipal corporation, or any subdivision thereof,
     6  which  has a name containing the word swastika in it shall, by an act of
     7  its governing body, change such name as to remove the word swastika.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00153-01-3