- Summary
- Actions
- Committee Votes
- Floor Votes
- Memo
- Text
- LFIN
- Chamber Video/Transcript
A06229 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6229 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments 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