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Go to topSTATE 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