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Assembly Bill A5669

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides penalties for the intentional violation of the open meetings law

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2025-A5669 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §107, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6140
2023-2024: A6333

2025-A5669 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for monetary penalties for the intentional violation of the open meetings law by any member of a public body who participates in a meeting with the intent and purpose of violating the provisions of the open meetings law.

2025-A5669 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5669
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to providing penal-
   ties for the intentional violation of the open meetings law
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 107 of the public officers law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. ANY MEMBER OF A PUBLIC BODY WHO PARTICIPATES IN A MEETING WITH  THE
 INTENT  AND  PURPOSE  BY THAT MEMBER OF VIOLATING THIS ARTICLE IS HEREBY
 GUILTY OF AN OFFENSE. SUCH OFFENSE SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE OF  NOT
 LESS THAN THREE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
 FOR   CONVICTION   OF  A FIRST OFFENSE. SAID OFFENSE SHALL BE PUNISHABLE
 BY A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWO  THOU-
 SAND  DOLLARS  FOR CONVICTION OF A SECOND OFFENSE OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.
 UPON CONVICTION, SAID MEMBER OF A PUBLIC BODY SHALL ALSO BE  LIABLE  FOR
 THE  COSTS  OF  PROSECUTION. THE STATE OR ANY PUBLIC CORPORATION FOR THE
 PUBLIC BODY SHALL NOT MAKE A PAYMENT ON BEHALF OF OR REIMBURSE A  MEMBER
 OF  A  PUBLIC  BODY  FOR  A  FINE  OR  COST  RESULTING FROM THE MEMBER'S
 VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09145-01-5

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