STATE OF NEW YORK
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1716
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to the establishment and oper-
ation of a hamlet district to continue to provide village services
upon the dissolution of a village
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The town law is amended by adding a new section 203-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 203-a. Hamlet district. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of this
4 article to the contrary, the town board of the town in which a village
5 dissolves itself pursuant to title three of article seventeen-A of the
6 general municipal law, may elect to establish a hamlet district to
7 provide all services to the residents of the dissolved village, prior to
8 the dissolution, pursuant to articles eight, ten, eleven, twelve, thir-
9 teen, fourteen, fifteen and twenty-two of the village law.
10 2. All debts, liabilities and obligations relating to the services
11 formerly provided by the dissolved village shall be assumed by the town
12 pursuant to section seven hundred ninety of the general municipal law.
13 3. Upon the establishment of a hamlet district, such district shall
14 assume the duties and functions of the dissolved village and continue to
15 provide the services theretofore provided by such village. The cost of
16 such services shall be a charge upon the taxable property within the
17 dissolved village.
18 4. During the first year of the establishment of the hamlet district,
19 such district shall be governed by a board consisting of the mayor and
20 two trustees of the dissolved village, and two members of the town board
21 of the town. During the second year after the establishment of the
22 hamlet district, such district shall be governed by a board consisting
23 of two trustees of the dissolved village, and the supervisor and two
24 town board members of the town. Thereafter the hamlet district shall be
25 governed by the town board.
26 § 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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