STATE OF NEW YORK
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1512
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, ABINANTI -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to eliminating the
population requirement for the definition of a municipality
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (k) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as
2 amended by section 6 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (k) The term "municipality" shall mean any jurisdictional subdivision
5 of the state, including but not limited to counties, cities, towns,
6 villages, improvement districts and special districts, [with a popu-
7 lation of more than five thousand,] and industrial development agencies
8 [in jurisdictional subdivisions with a population of more than five
9 thousand]; and public authorities, and public corporations.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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