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                                   1583
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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]  THEIR
 election  and throughout [his] THEIR term of office, shall be an elector
 of the town. Every other officer of the town at the time of [his]  THEIR
 appointment  and throughout [his] THEIR term of office shall be an elec-
 tor 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03074-01-5
              

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   [(f)] (VI) in the town of Hamlin, Monroe county, the court clerk  need
 not be an elector; and
   [(g)]  (VII) in towns participating in a shared town justice agreement
 pursuant to section one hundred six-b of the uniform justice court  act,
 a  town  justice  may be an elector of any town participating in such an
 agreement.
   (B) No county treasurer, district superintendent of schools, or  trus-
 tee of a school district shall be eligible to the office of supervisor.
   (C)  NO  PERSON  SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE  TO BE ELECTED TO THE POSITION OF
 SUPERVISOR WHO HAS HELD THE POSITION OF SUPERVISOR OF THE TOWN FOR  FOUR
 OR MORE YEARS.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.