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Assembly Bill A2203

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the number of days for filing a permissive referendum on a petition from thirty to forty-five and decreasing the percentage of electors required to sign a petition

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2011-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Village Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง9-902, Vil L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10016
2013-2014: A1326

2011-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the number of days for filing a permissive referendum on a petition from thirty to forty-five and decreasing the percentage of electors required to sign a petition from twenty percent to ten percent of electors in the village.

2011-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2203

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to increasing the number of
  days for filing a permissive referendum on a petition from  thirty  to
  forty-five days and to decrease the percentage of electors required to
  sign  a petition from twenty percent to ten percent of electors in the
  village

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  9-902  of the village law is
amended to read as follows:
  1. An act or resolution of the board of trustees as described  in  the
preceding  section  shall  not  take  effect until thirty days after its
adoption; nor until approved by the affirmative vote of  a  majority  of
the  qualified  electors  of such village voting on such proposition for
its approval if within [thirty] FORTY-FIVE days after its adoption there
be filed with the village clerk a petition signed  and  acknowledged  by
electors  of  the  village  in number equal to at least [twenty] TEN per
centum of such electors in the village, as  shown  on  the  register  of
electors  for  the previous general village election, protesting against
such act or resolution and requesting that it be submitted to the  elec-
tors of the village for their approval or disapproval.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00572-01-1

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