Senate Bill S3964

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to town elections and permissive referendums

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Local Government Committee


  • 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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2021-S3964 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7131
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§81, 91 & 85, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S3293, A4200
2017-2018: S1368, A1345
2019-2020: S4665, A3424
2023-2024: A2922

2021-S3964 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to town elections and permissive referendums.

2021-S3964 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3964 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3964
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to town elections and  permis-
   sive referendums
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph and subdivision 4 of  section  81  of
 the  town  law,  subdivision  4 as amended by chapter 434 of the laws of
 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   The town board may,  upon its own motion, CAUSE TO BE SUBMITTED  AT  A
 GENERAL  ELECTION, OR A SPECIAL OR BIENNIAL TOWN ELECTION and shall upon
 a petition, as hereinafter provided, cause to be submitted at [a special
 or biennial town] THE NEXT GENERAL election, UNLESS SUCH PETITION STATES
 THAT A SPECIAL ELECTION BE HELD a proposition:
   4. Such petition shall be subscribed and authenticated, in the  manner
 provided  by  the  election  law  for  the  authentication of nominating
 petitions, by electors of the town qualified to vote upon a  proposition
 to  raise  and expend money, in number equal to at least five per centum
 of the total votes cast for governor in said town at  the  last  general
 election  held for the election of state officers, but such number shall
 not be less than one hundred in a town of the first class nor less  than
 twenty-five  in  a town of the second class. If such a petition be filed
 in the office of the town clerk [not less than  sixty  days,  nor]  more
 than seventy-five days, prior to [a biennial town] THE GENERAL election,
 the  proposition shall be submitted at such [biennial] GENERAL election.
 If a petition [be presented at any other time, a special election  shall
 be  called  to  be held not less than sixty days, nor more than seventy-
 five days after the filing of such petition] IS FILED IN THE  OFFICE  OF
 THE TOWN CLERK LESS THAN SEVENTY-FIVE DAYS PRIOR TO THE GENERAL ELECTION
 THEN  IT  SHALL  BE  SUBMITTED  AT THE GENERAL ELECTION IN THE FOLLOWING
 YEAR. IF A PETITION STATES THAT A  SPECIAL  ELECTION  BE  HELD  ON  SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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