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Assembly Bill A1512

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Eliminates a population requirement for definition of municipality

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2017-A1512 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1-c, Leg L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A4195

2017-A1512 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates a population requirement from definition of municipality.

2017-A1512 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1512
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, ABINANTI -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law,  in  relation  to  eliminating  the
   population requirement for the definition of a municipality
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (k) of section 1-c of the legislative  law,  as
 amended  by  section  6 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (k) The term "municipality" shall mean any jurisdictional  subdivision
 of  the  state,  including  but  not limited to counties, cities, towns,
 villages, improvement districts and special  districts,  [with  a  popu-
 lation  of more than five thousand,] and industrial development agencies
 [in jurisdictional subdivisions with a  population  of  more  than  five
 thousand]; and public authorities, and public corporations.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04389-01-7

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