STATE OF NEW YORK
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255
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, THIELE, SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, COOK,
LAVINE, GUNTHER, JACOBSON, STIRPE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to preventing
certain elected officials from being a member of an agency; and to
repeal subdivision 4 of section 856 of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 856 of the general municipal law
2 is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
3 4. No member of an agency shall be an elected official of the munici-
4 pality nor shall any member of an agency be an elected official of any
5 county, city, town, or village within the county in which the agency is
6 located. Where an individual who currently serves as a member of an
7 agency would be ineligible to serve until his or her term as a member of
8 an agency has expired, the governing body of the municipality or
9 appointing authority of the agency shall appoint new members of the
10 agency as provided in subdivision two of this section where an individ-
11 ual was no longer able to serve in such a capacity. This subdivision
12 shall not apply to any elected officials required to serve on an indus-
13 trial development agency under title two of this article. This subdivi-
14 sion shall not apply to any industrial development agency that has a
15 board entirely composed of elected officials from the municipality that
16 chartered such industrial development agency.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00272-01-3
