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Assembly Bill A292

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website

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2017-A292 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5504
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §30, Town L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6065
2019-2020: S1146
2021-2022: S3984

2017-A292 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage.

2017-A292 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    292
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic
   version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is amended to
 read as follows:
   6.  At the expense of the town he OR SHE shall procure and affix on or
 near the main entrance to his OR HER office a sign-board with  the  name
 of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
 ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
 the  legal  notices  of  the town. Such sign-board AND, IN ANY TOWN THAT
 MAINTAINS A WEBSITE, AN ELECTRONIC VERSION OF SUCH SIGN-BOARD  shall  be
 one  of  the  public  places  upon which any legal notice may be posted.
 TOWNS WHICH MAINTAIN A WEBSITE SHALL MAINTAIN AN ELECTRONIC  VERSION  OF
 SUCH  SIGN-BOARD  AND SHALL POST A LINK TO THE ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE
 SIGN-BOARD ON ITS HOMEPAGE.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02385-01-7

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