Bill Text: NY S03188 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the name of municipalities and subdivisions thereof to include the word swastika.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-17 - PRINT NUMBER 3188A [S03188 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03188-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3188--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to limiting the naming of municipalities and subdivisions thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 99-z to read as follows: 3 § 99-z. Naming of municipalities; limitations. No municipal corpo- 4 ration, or any subdivision thereof, shall have a name containing the 5 word swastika and any municipal corporation, or any subdivision thereof, 6 which has a name containing the word swastika in it shall, by an act of 7 its governing body, change such name as to remove the word swastika. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06532-02-2
