STATE OF NEW YORK
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8585
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend chapter 234 of the laws of 1907 relating to authorizing
the formation of a park district in the town of Southold, Suffolk
county, to acquire lands for park purposes, and to issue bonds there-
for, in relation to appointment of a treasurer by the park commission-
ers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Sections 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 234 of the laws of 1907
2 relating to authorizing the formation of a park district in the town of
3 Southold, Suffolk county, to acquire lands for park purposes, and to
4 issue bonds therefor are amended to read as follows:
5 § 2. When such park district has been established in the manner above
6 provided, the legal voters thereof may elect three residents thereof to
7 be the park commissioners, one of whom may be a female over twenty-one
8 years of age, for a term of one, two, and three years respectively[; and
9 may also elect]. The park commissioners shall appoint a treasurer in
10 such park district [for a term of three years,] who shall be entitled to
11 receive and have custody of the funds of the district and pay out the
12 same for the purposes herein provided for, on the order of the park
13 commissioners, which treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his
14 office, shall give such security as the board of park commissioners may
15 require.
16 § 3. The first election of such park commissioners and appointment of
17 such treasurer shall be called by the clerk of the town of Southold,
18 within thirty days from the formation of said district by the posting of
19 notices conspicuously of such election in at least four of the most
20 public places in said district and publishing the same in a newspaper
21 published therein for two weeks immediately preceding such election and
22 appointment.
23 § 4. All subsequent elections and appointments shall be called in the
24 same manner by the clerk of the town of Southold, not less than thirty
25 days prior to the expiration of the term of office of any such commis-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sioners or of the treasurer; special elections or appointments to fill
2 any vacancies shall be called in the same manner, within thirty days
3 after any such vacancies shall occur; all elections for commissioners
4 [and treasurer] shall be by ballot.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
