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Senate Bill S9232

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends the term length for certain commissioners of deeds to four years

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2025-S9232 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§139 & 140, Exec L

2025-S9232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the term length for certain commissioners of deeds to four years.

2025-S9232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9232
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to extending term lengths
   for certain commissioners of deeds
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 139 of the executive law,
 as amended by chapter 550 of the laws of 1958, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Commissioners  of  deeds  in  the  cities  of  this state shall be
 appointed by the common councils of such cities respectively, and  shall
 hold  office  for  the  term  of [two] FOUR years from the date of their
 appointment, and until others are appointed in their places.  A  vacancy
 occurring during the term for which any commissioner shall be appointed,
 shall be filled by the common council. The common council of the several
 cities of this state, except in cities of this state situate in a county
 which  has  a population of not less than one hundred [and] eighty thou-
 sand, and not more than six hundred [and] fifty thousand,  according  to
 the  last  state or federal enumeration, shall at the end of every OTHER
 even numbered year, by resolution of the board, determine the number  of
 commissioners of deeds to be appointed for such cities respectively.
   2.  The  term of office of each commissioner of deeds appointed by the
 common council in cities of this state situate in a county which  has  a
 population  of  not less than one hundred [and] eighty thousand, and not
 more than six hundred [and] fifty thousand, according to the last  state
 or  federal enumeration, shall expire on the thirty-first of December of
 the SECOND even numbered year next after [he] SUCH COMMISSIONER shall be
 appointed.  The common council of any such city shall in  the  month  of
 November in every OTHER even numbered year, by resolution, determine the
 number of commissioners of deeds to be appointed in such cities, respec-
 tively, for the next succeeding [two] FOUR years.
   §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 140 of the executive law, as amended by
 chapter 376 of the laws of 1953, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13635-01-5

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