Bill Text: NY A05941 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the towns of Harmony and North Harmony in Chautauqua county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-16 - committed to judiciary [A05941 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05941-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5941 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Judiciary AN ACT to authorize the towns of Harmony and North Harmony in Chautauqua county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Pursuant to section 106-b of the uniform justice court act, 2 the towns of Harmony and North Harmony in Chautauqua County have 3 conducted and completed a study, each town having adopted a joint resol- 4 ution providing for the study, conducted a public hearing upon the find- 5 ings of the study, and adopted a joint resolution adopting such plan 6 providing for the abolition of existing town justice positions in the 7 towns of Harmony and North Harmony and providing for the election of a 8 single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns. The 9 town justice elected pursuant to this plan shall preside in the towns of 10 Harmony and North Harmony following the next general election in such 11 towns and shall preside for the year term as elected. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08669-01-3
