Repeals certain provisions regarding the adoption of a new or revised city charter proposed by a charter commission which limits the submission of questions to a city's qualified electors; eliminates the rule that provides that whenever a city charter commission puts a proposal on the local ballot, all other local referendum proposals are barred from the ballot.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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590--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, BRISPORT, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, RAMOS, SALAZAR --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Cities 1 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to repeal paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section
36 of the municipal home rule law, relating to limitations on the
submitting of a question to the qualified electors of a city when
there is a question submitted by a charter commission
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section 36
2 of the municipal home rule law are REPEALED.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
REPEAL NOTE.--Paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of subdivision 5 of section
36 of the municipal home rule law proposed to be repealed by this act
provides limitations including prohibition on submission by local law,
ordinance, resolution or petition of a question to the qualified elec-
tors of a city when any question is submitted by a charter commission.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01385-03-5
