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Assembly Bill A5040

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Consolidates the village of Woodbury and town of Woodbury

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2013-A5040 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3747
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Ren §§792 & 793 to be §§793 & 794, add §792, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10007
2011-2012: A3107, S4223

2013-A5040 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Consolidates the village of Woodbury and town of Woodbury to create the town of Woodbury, leaving the incorporated village of Harriman intact but prohibiting any new villages from being formed within the town limits.

2013-A5040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5040

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 14, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  consolidating
  the village of Woodbury with the town of Woodbury

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

  Section 1. Legislative intent. It was and is the  intent  of  the  New
N.Y.    Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act to provide
opportunities for local governments and electors to  adopt  consolidated
forms  of  local  governments, and this act provides that opportunity to
the village and town of Woodbury upon certain terms.
  S 2. Sections 792 and 793 of the general municipal law are  renumbered
sections 793 and 794 and a new section 792 is added to read as follows:
  S  792. CONSOLIDATION OF THE VILLAGE OF WOODBURY AND THE TOWN OF WOOD-
BURY.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE,  OR  ARTICLE
TWO  OF THE VILLAGE LAW, THE VILLAGE AND TOWN OF WOODBURY, NEW YORK, MAY
FORM A CONSOLIDATED LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITY  BY  A  JOINT  CONSOLIDATION
AGREEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE, EXCEPT THAT
THE  NEW GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY TO SURVIVE SHALL BE THE TOWN (INCLUDING THE
EXISTING PORTION OF THE INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF HARRIMAN PRESENTLY WITH-
IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF WOODBURY) THAT SHALL HAVE  ALL  OF  THE
POWERS,  DUTIES  AND OBLIGATIONS OF A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY UNDER THE TOWN
LAW, BUT SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE  FORMATION  OF  ANY  ADDITIONAL
VILLAGES WITHIN ITS LIMITS. THE NEW GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY TO SURVIVE SHALL
BE  GOVERNED  INITIALLY BY THE THEN-EXISTING TOWN OF WOODBURY SUPERVISOR
AND THE TOWN OF WOODBURY TOWN BOARD MEMBERS.
  S 3. Savings clause. If  any  portion,  clause,  sentence,  paragraph,
section,  word,  or  part  of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
impair  or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its
operation to the portion, clause, sentence, paragraph, word, section  or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08829-01-3

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