Bill Text: NY S06675 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a local law adopted by a town and subject to a referendum on petition shall be conducted as a permissive referendum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S06675 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06675-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6675 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the municipal home rule law, in relation to local laws adopted by towns subject to referendum on petition The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 24 of the municipal home rule law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows: 3 c. A local law adopted by a town and subject to a referendum on peti- 4 tion as provided in this section or in any other state statute, if not 5 also subject to a mandatory referendum shall be conducted as a permis- 6 sive referendum as provided in article seven of the town law and compli- 7 ance with such article shall be deemed to be compliance with this chap- 8 ter for all purposes. 9 § 2. Severability. If any provision of this act or the application 10 thereof shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent 11 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or 12 invalidate the remainder of this act, but shall be confined in its oper- 13 ation to the provision thereof directly involved in the controversy in 14 which such judgment shall have been rendered. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11245-01-1
