Bill Text: NY S07794 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for an additional village justice for the village of Brewster in Putnam county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-09 - referred to local governments [S07794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07794-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7794

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 21, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT amend the village law, in relation to allowing for an  additional
          village justice for the village of Brewster in Putnam county

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

     1    Section 1. Section 3-303 of the village law, as added by  chapter  107
     2  of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  3-303 Additional village justices in certain villages. At least one
     4  hundred fifty days prior to any village general election and subject  to
     5  a  permissive  referendum,  as  provided by article nine of this [title]
     6  chapter, the board of trustees of the following  villages  may  adopt  a
     7  resolution  determining  that  such  village  shall  have  three village
     8  justices with the third village justice to be elected by the electors at
     9  the next village general election to begin  serving  a  term  of  office
    10  beginning at the start of the official year next succeeding such village
    11  general election:
    12    The village of Spring Valley in Rockland county.
    13    The village of Brewster in Putnam county.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15138-01-0