STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 255 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, THIELE, SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, COOK, LAVINE, GUNTHER, JACOBSON, STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to preventing certain elected officials from being a member of an agency; and to repeal subdivision 4 of section 856 of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 856 of the general municipal law 2 is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 3 4. No member of an agency shall be an elected official of the munici- 4 pality nor shall any member of an agency be an elected official of any 5 county, city, town, or village within the county in which the agency is 6 located. Where an individual who currently serves as a member of an 7 agency would be ineligible to serve until his or her term as a member of 8 an agency has expired, the governing body of the municipality or 9 appointing authority of the agency shall appoint new members of the 10 agency as provided in subdivision two of this section where an individ- 11 ual was no longer able to serve in such a capacity. This subdivision 12 shall not apply to any elected officials required to serve on an indus- 13 trial development agency under title two of this article. This subdivi- 14 sion shall not apply to any industrial development agency that has a 15 board entirely composed of elected officials from the municipality that 16 chartered such industrial development agency. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00272-01-3