Assembly Bill A10319

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Imposes a term limit on town supervisors

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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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2021-A10319 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Town L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5536

2021-A10319 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes a term limit of four years on town supervisors.

2021-A10319 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10319
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the town law, in relation to imposing term limits on
   town supervisors
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 23 of the town law, as amended by
 chapter 238 of the laws of 2001, paragraphs (d) and (e)  as  amended  by
 chapter  554 of the laws of 2007, and paragraph (f) as amended and para-
 graph (g) as added by chapter 87 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. (A) Every elective officer of the town at the time of  his  OR  HER
 election  and  throughout his OR HER term of office, shall be an elector
 of the town. Every other officer of the town at the time of his  OR  HER
 appointment and throughout his OR HER term of office shall be an elector
 of the town except that: [(a)]
   (I)  in  towns having no resident attorney, the town attorney and such
 counsel as may be employed need not be electors; and
   [(b)] (II) in towns having no resident engineer and in  the  towns  of
 Mount  Pleasant,  Westchester  county, North Castle, Westchester county,
 Lewisboro,  Westchester  county,  Somers,  Westchester  county,  Carmel,
 Putnam  county,  and Ithaca, Tompkins county, the town engineer and such
 consultant engineers as may be employed need not be electors; and
   [(c)] (III) in the towns of North Castle,  Westchester  county,  North
 Salem,  Lewisboro and Pound Ridge, Westchester county, the town building
 inspector and such deputy building inspectors as may  be  employed  need
 not be electors; and
   [(d)]  (IV)  in  the  town  of Lewisboro, Westchester county, the town
 wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and
   [(e)] (V) in the towns of Carmel and  Patterson,  Putnam  county,  the
 town wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and
   [(f)]  (VI) in the town of Hamlin, Monroe county, the court clerk need
 not be an elector; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13946-01-1

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