Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage if the town maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1146--A
Cal. No. 52
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic
version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is amended to
2 read as follows:
3 6. At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or
4 near the main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with the name
5 of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
6 ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
7 the legal notices of the town. Such sign-board and, in any town that
8 maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high
9 speed internet connection, an electronic version of such sign-board
10 shall be one of the public places upon which any legal notice may be
11 posted. Towns which maintain a regularly and routinely updated website
12 and utilizes a high speed internet connection shall, to the extent prac-
13 ticable, maintain an electronic version of such sign-board and shall
14 post a link to the electronic version of the sign-board on its homepage.
15 An electronic version of such sign-board shall include a town website
16 page designed or intended to provide electronic access to public
17 notices. A town shall not be required to maintain an electronic sign-
18 board pursuant to this subdivision should the town incur additional
19 costs in order to comply.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06355-02-0
