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Senate Bill S6916

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to compensation of commissioners of improvement districts

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2025-S6916 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8251
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §214, Town L

2025-S6916 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S6916 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6916 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6916
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 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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