Bill Text: NY S01146 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage if the town maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to local governments [S01146 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01146-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1146
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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  requiring  an  electronic
          version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is  amended  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    6.  At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or
     4  near  the  main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with the name
     5  of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
     6  ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
     7  the legal notices of the town. Such sign-board and,  in  any  town  that
     8  maintains  a  website, an electronic version of such sign-board shall be
     9  one of the public places upon which any  legal  notice  may  be  posted.
    10  Towns  which  maintain a website shall maintain an electronic version of
    11  such sign-board and shall post a link to the electronic version  of  the
    12  sign-board on its homepage.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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