Bill Text: NY S07579 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the towns of Mina and French Creek in Chautauqua county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-07-29 - SIGNED CHAP.129 [S07579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07579-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7579--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          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  towns  of
          Mina  and  French  Creek  in  Chautauqua county to elect a single town
          justice to preside in the town courts of such towns

          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 (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q) Pursuant to section 106-b of the uniform justice  court  act,  the
     4  towns  of  Mina and French Creek in Chautauqua County have conducted and
     5  completed a study, each town having adopted a joint resolution providing
     6  for the study, conducted a public  hearing  upon  the  findings  of  the
     7  study,  and  adopted a joint resolution adopting such plan providing for
     8  the abolition of existing town justice positions in the  towns  of  Mina
     9  and French Creek and providing for the election of a single town justice
    10  to  preside  in  the town courts of such towns. The town justice elected
    11  pursuant to this plan shall preside in the  towns  of  Mina  and  French
    12  Creek  following  the  next  general  election  in  such towns and shall
    13  preside for the year term as elected.
    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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