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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 13, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to imposing term limits on
town supervisors
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 23 of the town law, as amended by
chapter 238 of the laws of 2001, paragraphs (d) and (e) as amended by
chapter 554 of the laws of 2007, and paragraph (f) as amended and para-
graph (g) as added by chapter 87 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read
as follows:
1. (A) Every elective officer of the town at the time of his OR HER
election and throughout his OR HER term of office, shall be an elector
of the town. Every other officer of the town at the time of his OR HER
appointment and throughout his OR HER term of office shall be an elector
of the town except that: [(a)]
(I) in towns having no resident attorney, the town attorney and such
counsel as may be employed need not be electors; and
[(b)] (II) in towns having no resident engineer and in the towns of
Mount Pleasant, Westchester county, North Castle, Westchester county,
Lewisboro, Westchester county, Somers, Westchester county, Carmel,
Putnam county, and Ithaca, Tompkins county, the town engineer and such
consultant engineers as may be employed need not be electors; and
[(c)] (III) in the towns of North Castle, Westchester county, North
Salem, Lewisboro and Pound Ridge, Westchester county, the town building
inspector and such deputy building inspectors as may be employed need
not be electors; and
[(d)] (IV) in the town of Lewisboro, Westchester county, the town
wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and
[(e)] (V) in the towns of Carmel and Patterson, Putnam county, the
town wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and
[(f)] (VI) in the town of Hamlin, Monroe county, the court clerk need
not be an elector; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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[(g)] (VII) in towns participating in a shared town justice agreement
pursuant to section one hundred six-b of the uniform justice court act,
a town justice may be an elector of any town participating in such an
agreement.
(B) No county treasurer, district superintendent of schools, or trus-
tee of a school district shall be eligible to the office of supervisor.
(C) NO PERSON SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO BE ELECTED TO THE POSITION OF
SUPERVISOR WHO HAS HELD THE POSITION OF SUPERVISOR OF THE TOWN FOR FOUR
OR MORE YEARS.
§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
law.