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A08957 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8957
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     August 11, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BURROUGHS, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Local Governments
 
        AN ACT to amend the  town  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  a  special
          election to fill a vacant supervisor position in certain towns
 
          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 89 to  read
     2  as follows:
     3    §  89. Special elections for supervisors in towns with a population of
     4  two hundred fifty thousand or more.  Notwithstanding subdivision five of
     5  section sixty-four of this chapter or any other law to the contrary,  in
     6  a  town with a population of two hundred fifty thousand or more, where a
     7  supervisor has vacated such position before the end of their term, there
     8  shall be a special election held to  fill  such  vacancy.  Such  special
     9  election shall be held on a Tuesday as soon as practicable.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13554-02-5

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