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Assembly Bill A3397

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires petitions for permissive referendums to be signed by 5% of the total village vote cast at the most recent gubernatorial election

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2013-A3397 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Village Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง9-902, Vil L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A9095

2013-A3397 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires petitions for permissive referendums to be signed by 5% of the total village vote cast at the most recent gubernatorial election.

2013-A3397 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3397

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 25, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. RABBITT, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee 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.
                                                           LBD01363-01-3

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