STATE OF NEW YORK
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1769
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BIAGGI, KAMINSKY, KRUEGER, MAYER -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Local Government
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2 is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: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 until his or her term as a member of
8 an agency has expired, the governing body of the municipality or
9 appointing authority of the agency shall appoint new members of the
10 agency as provided in subdivision two of this section where an individ-
11 ual was no longer able to serve in such a capacity. This subdivision
12 shall not apply to any elected officials required to serve on an indus-
13 trial development agency under title two of this article. This subdivi-
14 sion shall not apply to any industrial development agency that has a
15 board entirely composed of elected officials from the municipality that
16 chartered such industrial development agency.
17 § 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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