S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9095
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to requiring five percent
of the number of people who voted in the last gubernatorial election
to sign a petition
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 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] FIVE per centum of
[such electors in the village, as shown on the register of electors for
the previous general village election] THE TOTAL VILLAGE VOTE CAST AT
THE MOST RECENT GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION, protesting against such act or
resolution and requesting that it be submitted to the electors of the
village for their approval or disapproval.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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