Bill Text: NY S05076 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires timely disclosure of requested records and makes the willful failure to make timely disclosure of public records pursuant to the provisions of the freedom of information law subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES [S05076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S05076-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5076
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KLEIN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to willful  failure
         to make timely disclosure of a public record
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 89 of the public officers law is amended by  adding
    2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF A STATE AGENCY CHARGED WITH THE DISCLO-
    4  SURE  OF  ANY  RECORD  IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE
    5  SHALL MAKE SUCH DISCLOSURE WITHIN THE  TIME  PERIODS  PROVIDED  IN  THIS
    6  SECTION.  ANY  AGENCY WHICH EMPLOYS A PERSON WHO HAS WILLFULLY FAILED TO
    7  MAKE TIMELY DISCLOSURE OF SUCH RECORD SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENAL-
    8  TY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   10  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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