Bill Text: NY S06331 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the terms of office for the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton from two to four years; provides for the staggering of such terms of office; further provides that at the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of votes shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years and the remaining four successful candidates shall hold office for a term of two years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.366 [S06331 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06331-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 6331 A. 7030 2021-2022 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY April 22, 2021 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Govern- ment IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend chapter 1001 of the laws of 1966, confirming the author- ity and proprietary rights of the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, in relation to increasing the term of office from two years to four years and providing for the staggering of such terms of office The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2 of chapter 1001 of the laws of 1966, confirming 2 the authority and proprietary rights of the Trustees of the Freeholders 3 and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton, as amended by chapter 378 of 4 the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows: 5 § 2. The electors of the town of East Hampton are hereby authorized 6 and empowered to elect by ballot from their number at the biennial town 7 election to be held in said town in [nineteen hundred seventy-five] two 8 thousand twenty-three and biennially thereafter, in the same manner as 9 other town officers are elected, nine freeholders as trustees, who shall 10 continue to be known as the Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty 11 of the Town of East Hampton. They shall hold office for a term of [two] 12 four years, provided that at the biennial election to be held in said 13 town in two thousand twenty-three, five trustees shall hold office for a 14 term of four years and four trustees shall hold office for a term of two 15 years. At the biennial election to be held in said town in two thousand 16 twenty-three, the five candidates receiving the largest number of votes 17 shall be entitled to hold office for a term of four years. The remaining 18 four successful candidates shall hold office for a term of two years. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10708-03-1S. 6331 2 A. 7030 1 Thereafter, at all subsequent biennial town elections, all trustees 2 shall hold office for a term of four years. They shall within ten days 3 after their election and qualification, meet and choose from their 4 number, by majority vote, a chairman and a clerk of said board. Said 5 trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to 6 manage, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or any part of all 7 such common lands, waters, and lands under water, or rights or other 8 interests therein, subject, as to lands under water, to the public right 9 of navigation and to the riparian rights of adjoining upland owners, as 10 the trustees have acquired and now hold by virtue of any colonial patent 11 or charter; and for this purpose said board may execute all such convey- 12 ances, leases, permits, agreements or other writings, necessary or prop- 13 er in carrying into effect the provisions of this act; subject, however, 14 to and in accordance with such rules and regulations, if any, concerning 15 the management and disposition of said property and rights, as the elec- 16 tors of said town may adopt or impose at a biennial town election; and 17 the electors of said town are hereby empowered to adopt from time to 18 time such rules and regulations as a proposition at any biennial town 19 election. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
