STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 4860 A. 7845
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
April 27, 2009
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern-
ment
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. McENENY -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to providing for the election
of a third town justice in the town of Guilderland in the county of
Albany
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 20 of the town law is amended by
2 adding a new paragraph (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local
4 law to the contrary, the town board of the town of Guilderland, county
5 of Albany may adopt a resolution, subject to a permissive referendum as
6 provided by article seven of this chapter, at least sixty days prior to
7 any regular or special election determining that such town shall have
8 three town justices. If the town board of such town shall have adopted
9 such a resolution and no petition shall have been filed within the time
10 specified for a referendum thereon, or if a majority of the votes cast
11 on any such proposition submitted to the vote of the electors be in the
12 affirmative, the electors of such town shall elect at the succeeding
13 general election a town justice who shall take office for a term of four
14 years beginning on the first day of January next succeeding such bienni-
15 al town election.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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