Assembly Bill A8251

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to compensation of commissioners of improvement districts

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A8251 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6916
Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §214, Town L

2025-A8251 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the maximum compensation for commissioners of improvement districts from one hundred to one hundred twenty dollars per day.

2025-A8251 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8251
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NORBER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to compensation of commission-
   ers of improvement districts
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 214 of the town law, as amended by chapter  344  of
 the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   §  214.  Oaths,  undertakings  and compensation of commissioners. Each
 commissioner, before entering upon the duties of [his] SUCH  COMMISSION-
 ER'S office, shall take the constitutional oath of office and execute to
 the  town  and  file with the town clerk an official undertaking in such
 sum and with such sureties as the town board may direct. The town  board
 at  any  time  may require any such commissioners to file a new official
 undertaking for such sum and with  such  sureties  as  the  board  shall
 approve. Such commissioners may be paid such an amount as the town board
 may  designate,  but not to exceed the sum of one hundred TWENTY dollars
 per day each for each day actually and necessarily spent in the  service
 of  the  district. Such compensation shall be deemed an expense of main-
 taining the district.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10977-01-5

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