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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3984
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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  requiring  an  electronic
          version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is  amended  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    6.  At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or
     4  near the main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with  the  name
     5  of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
     6  ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
     7  the  legal  notices  of  the town. Such sign-board and, in any town that
     8  maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a  high
     9  speed  internet  connection,  an  electronic  version of such sign-board
    10  shall be one of the public places upon which any  legal  notice  may  be
    11  posted.   Towns which maintain a regularly and routinely updated website
    12  and utilizes a high speed internet connection shall, to the extent prac-
    13  ticable, maintain an electronic version of  such  sign-board  and  shall
    14  post a link to the electronic version of the sign-board on its homepage.
    15  An  electronic  version  of such sign-board shall include a town website
    16  page designed  or  intended  to  provide  electronic  access  to  public
    17  notices.    A town shall not be required to maintain an electronic sign-
    18  board pursuant to this subdivision  should  the  town  incur  additional
    19  costs in order to comply.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08238-01-1