Assembly Bill A2448

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides that members of N.Y. city community boards need only be 16 years of age to be appointed to such board

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A2448 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4142
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L; amd §2800, NYC Chart
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8749, A411, S807, S4483
2011-2012: A5961, A5959, S3995

2013-A2448 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that members of community boards in NYC need only be 16 years of age to be appointed to such board.

2013-A2448 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2448

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROZIC, KAVANAGH, WRIGHT, CAMARA, BENEDETTO --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. GOTTFRIED, HEASTIE --  read  once  and
  referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law and the New York city charter,
  in relation to allowing  certain  individuals  to  become  members  of
  community boards in the city of New York

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  44  of  the  laws  of  1982, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
at the time he OR SHE shall be chosen thereto, have attained the age  of
eighteen  years,  except that in the case of youth boards, youth commis-
sions [or], recreation commissions, OR COMMUNITY BOARDS IN THE  CITY  OF
NEW  YORK  only,  members of such boards or commissions may be under the
age of eighteen years, but must have attained the age of  sixteen  years
on  or  before  appointment  to such youth board, youth commission [or],
recreation commission, OR COMMUNITY BOARD IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, be  a
citizen  of  the  United States, a resident of the state, and if it be a
local office, a resident  of  the  political  subdivision  or  municipal
corporation  of the state for which he OR SHE shall be chosen, or within
which the electors electing him OR HER reside, or within  which  his  OR
HER  official  functions are required to be exercised, or who shall have
been or shall be convicted of a violation of the selective draft act  of
the  United  States, enacted May eighteenth, nineteen hundred seventeen,
or the acts amendatory or supplemental thereto, or of the federal selec-
tive training and service act of nineteen  hundred  forty  or  the  acts
amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03129-01-3

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