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Senate Bill S5142

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the composition of and compensation paid to the board of trustees of joint water works

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2009-S5142 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Municipalities
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3, Chap 654 of 1927

2009-S5142 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the composition of the board of trustees of joint water works by increasing the number of members of the board of trustees and increases the compensation such members are entitled to.

2009-S5142 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5142 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5142

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. AUBERTINE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN  ACT to amend chapter 654 of the laws of 1927 relating to joint water
  works systems, in relation to the composition of and compensation paid
  to the board of trustees

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2 of section 3 of chapter 654 of the laws of
1927 relating to joint water  works  systems,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2. [Each municipality, thus conferring, shall be entitled to one vote,
which  shall  be cast through its representative.] THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
SHALL HAVE A MINIMUM OF SIX MEMBERS, CONSISTING OF TWO  RESIDENT  VOTERS
OF  EACH  MUNICIPALITY  AND  THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF EACH MUNICI-
PALITY. EACH MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES SHALL BE  ENTITLED  TO  ONE
VOTE.  Whenever  the  representatives of such municipalities, shall thus
meet and confer, they shall choose a temporary chairman and a  temporary
clerk,  whose  duty  it shall be to keep the minutes of the proceedings.
The meetings may be adjourned from time to time, but any two or more  of
such  municipalities,  thus  meeting  and  conferring,  may  at any time
through their representatives, adopt a proposition to acquire, construct
or provide a joint water works system, or acquire a supply of water  for
the  purposes herein defined, and they shall adopt a name for said joint
water works system, which name shall  include  the  words  "joint  water
works".
  S  2.  Subdivision  7  of section 3 of chapter 654 of the laws of 1927
relating to joint water works systems, as amended by chapter 232 of  the
laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  7.  Each  member of the board of trustees shall be entitled to receive
[the sum of ten] UP TO ONE  HUNDRED  dollars  as  compensation  for  his
attendance  at  each  meeting  of the board of trustees except that each

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11527-01-9

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