Assembly Bill A3022A

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the establishment of a single town court to serve the towns of Erin and Chemung

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A3022 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6770
Law Section:
Towns

2017-A3022 - Summary

Relates to the establishment of a single town court to serve the towns of Erin and Chemung.

2017-A3022 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3022
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. FRIEND, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the uniform  justice  court  act,  in  relation  to  the
   consolidation of the town courts of Erin and Chemung
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 106-a of the uniform justice court
 act, as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of 2016, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  The  town  boards  of  two  or  more  towns that form a contiguous
 geographic area within the same county are hereby authorized  to  estab-
 lish  a single town court to be comprised of town justices to be elected
 from each of such towns in the same manner and for  the  same  terms  as
 town justices are so elected except that the number of such terms expir-
 ing  in any one year may not exceed by more than one the number of terms
 expiring in any other year in which  terms  expire;  provided,  however,
 THAT  NOTWITHSTANDING  SUBDIVISIONS  TEN AND ELEVEN OF THIS SECTION, the
 town boards of the towns of Erin and Chemung in Chemung county are here-
 by authorized to establish a single town court in  accordance  with  the
 provisions of this section. The procedure to establish such single court
 may  be  initiated by the town board or may be initiated by petition. In
 the event the procedure is initiated by petition, the petition shall  be
 addressed  to  each  town  board  and shall be signed by at least twenty
 percent of the registered voters in such towns.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07672-01-7

co-Sponsors

2017-A3022A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6770
Law Section:
Towns

2017-A3022A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the establishment of a single town court to serve the towns of Erin and Chemung.

2017-A3022A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3022--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. FRIEND, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Judiciary  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to establish a single town court to serve the towns of Erin and
   Chemung

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. (a) The legislature hereby finds and declares that:
   (i)  In  2016, the towns of Erin and Chemung, in Chemung county, acted
 in concert in an effort to establish a single town court  having  juris-
 diction in both towns; and
   (ii) in undertaking this effort, the two towns inadvertently failed to
 comply  with  the necessary provisions of law - subdivision 1 of section
 106-a of the uniform justice court act, as amended by chapter 205 of the
 laws of 2016 - setting forth the process that must be followed in  order
 to  establish  a  single  town  court serving the two towns, and section
 106-b of the uniform justice court act, as added by chapter  87  of  the
 laws  of 2008 - setting forth the process that must be followed in order
 to provide for the election of a single town justice for the two towns.
   (b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, such steps as  the  towns
 of  Erin  and  Chemung  have heretofore taken to establish a single town
 court having jurisdiction in both towns shall be  deemed  sufficient  to
 constitute  such single town court solely for the period from the effec-
 tive date of this act through  December  31,  2017.  Each  of  the  town
 justices  of  the  towns of Erin and Chemung, in office on the effective
 date of this act, shall be and shall serve as a  town  justice  of  such
 single town court.
   (c)  Nothing  in  this act shall prevent the towns of Erin and Chemung
 from establishing a single town court having jurisdiction in both  towns
 pursuant to the provisions of section 106-a of the uniform justice court

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07672-02-7

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