STATE OF NEW YORK
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7185--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Libraries and Education Technology -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend chapter 392 of the laws of 2003 relating to creating the
Mamakating library district in the town of Mamakating, New York, in
relation to changing the structure of the board of such library
district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 3 of chapter 392 of the
2 laws of 2003, relating to creating the Mamakating library district in
3 the town of Mamakating, New York, is amended to read as follows:
4 The Mamakating library district shall be managed, operated, and
5 controlled by a board of trustees consisting of no less than five
6 members nor more than fifteen members. The trustees shall take office
7 on the first day of the month following their election and shall, at the
8 first regular meeting of the board, determine when terms of office of
9 each member shall expire as follows: the two trustees receiving the
10 first and second highest number of votes shall serve for four years, the
11 two trustees receiving the third and fourth highest number of votes
12 shall serve for three years, and the trustee receiving the fifth highest
13 number of votes shall serve for two years. The ten additional trustee
14 positions are within the range of five-fifteen trustees allowed by
15 subdivision one of section two hundred sixty of the education law and
16 may be filled as determined by the library board at subsequent
17 elections.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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