STATE OF NEW YORK
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7235
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 18, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to preventing
certain elected officials from being a member of an agency; and to
repeal subdivision 4 of section 856 of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 856 of the general municipal law
2 is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
3 4. No member of an agency shall be an elected official of the munici-
4 pality nor shall any member of an agency be an elected official of any
5 county, city, town, or village within the county in which the agency is
6 located. Where an individual who currently serves as a member of an
7 agency would be ineligible to serve under the terms of this section, the
8 individual shall continue to serve only until the thirty-first day of
9 December of the year in which such individual was no longer able to
10 serve as a member of such agency. The governing body of the municipality
11 or appointing authority of the agency shall appoint new members of the
12 agency as provided in subdivision two of this section where an individ-
13 ual was no longer able to serve in such a capacity.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10240-02-9
