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Assembly Bill A6470

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Limits the term for elected officials in New York city

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2009-A6470 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
New York City Charter
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1138, NYC Chart

2009-A6470 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the term for elected officials in New York city.

2009-A6470 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6470

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

AN  ACT  to  amend the New York city charter, in relation to term limits
  for elected office

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  1138 of the New York city charter, as amended by
local law number 51 of the city of  New  York  for  the  year  2008,  is
amended to read as follows:
  S  1138.  Term  Limits.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
contained in this charter, no person shall be eligible to be elected  to
or  serve  in the office of mayor, public advocate, comptroller, borough
president or council member if that  person  had  previously  held  such
office  for  [three] TWO or more full consecutive terms, unless one full
term or more has elapsed  since  that  person  last  held  such  office;
provided, however, that in calculating the number of consecutive terms a
person  has  served,  only  terms commencing on or after January 1, 1994
shall be counted.
  S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2010.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09569-01-9

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