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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6331                                                  A. 7030
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 22, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- 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. THIELE -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend chapter 1001 of the laws of 1966, confirming the author-
          ity and proprietary rights of the  Trustees  of  the  Freeholders  and
          Commonalty  of the Town of East Hampton, in relation to increasing the
          term of office from two years to four  years  and  providing  for  the
          staggering of such terms of office
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 1001 of the laws of  1966,  confirming
     2  the  authority and proprietary rights of the Trustees of the Freeholders
     3  and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, as amended by chapter 378 of
     4  the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
     5    § 2. The electors of the town of East Hampton  are  hereby  authorized
     6  and  empowered to elect by ballot from their number at the biennial town
     7  election to be held in said town in [nineteen hundred seventy-five]  two
     8  thousand  twenty-three  and biennially thereafter, in the same manner as
     9  other town officers are elected, nine freeholders as trustees, who shall
    10  continue to be known as the Trustees of the Freeholders  and  Commonalty
    11  of the Town of East Hampton.  They shall hold office for a term of [two]
    12  four  years,  provided  that at the biennial election to be held in said
    13  town in two thousand twenty-three, five trustees shall hold office for a
    14  term of four years and four trustees shall hold office for a term of two
    15  years.  At the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand
    16  twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of  votes
    17  shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years. The remaining
    18  four  successful  candidates  shall hold office for a term of two years.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10708-03-1
        S. 6331                             2                            A. 7030
 
     1  Thereafter, at all subsequent  biennial  town  elections,  all  trustees
     2  shall  hold  office for a term of four years. They shall within ten days
     3  after their election and  qualification,  meet  and  choose  from  their
     4  number,  by  majority  vote,  a chairman and a clerk of said board. Said
     5  trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered  to
     6  manage,  lease,  convey  or  otherwise dispose of all or any part of all
     7  such common lands, waters, and lands under water,  or  rights  or  other
     8  interests therein, subject, as to lands under water, to the public right
     9  of  navigation and to the riparian rights of adjoining upland owners, as
    10  the trustees have acquired and now hold by virtue of any colonial patent
    11  or charter; and for this purpose said board may execute all such convey-
    12  ances, leases, permits, agreements or other writings, necessary or prop-
    13  er in carrying into effect the provisions of this act; subject, however,
    14  to and in accordance with such rules and regulations, if any, concerning
    15  the management and disposition of said property and rights, as the elec-
    16  tors of said town may adopt or impose at a biennial town  election;  and
    17  the  electors  of  said  town are hereby empowered to adopt from time to
    18  time such rules and regulations as a proposition at  any  biennial  town
    19  election.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.