STATE OF NEW YORK
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6523
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to authorize the town of Portville to electronically transmit
draft local laws to legislative members
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision 4 of section
2 20 of the municipal home rule law, upon adoption of a resolution author-
3 izing such, the town of Portville in the county of Cattaraugus may use
4 e-mail as a means of formal document conveyance and communication, in
5 addition to the other conveyance and communication methods specified in
6 subdivision 4 of section 20 of the municipal home rule law, provided
7 that the town has documented that each member of its legislative body
8 has an e-mail address, that it has published such e-mail addresses on
9 its town clerk bulletin board, and that each proposed law to be trans-
10 mitted by e-mail be transmitted in its final form in the portable Docu-
11 ment Format (PDF) to the e-mail in-box of each member at least ten
12 calendar days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to its final passage of such
13 law, unless otherwise provided by the town supervisor or other appropri-
14 ate authority who shall have certified as to the necessity for its imme-
15 diate passage. Proposed laws transmitted by e-mail shall comply in all
16 other respects with applicable state and local law.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05177-01-9
