Bill Text: NY S06761 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of consolidation of local governmental entities; provides that alteration of village boundaries to be coterminus with a town shall require a showing to the secretary of state that there shall be a consolidation of services resulting in savings to taxpayers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-11 - PRINT NUMBER 6761A [S06761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06761-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6761--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 19, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen. BONACIC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
         reported  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
         on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the definition
         of consolidation for the consolidation in dissolution of local govern-
         ment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 750 of the general municipal law,
    2  as added by chapter 74 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2.  "Consolidation"  shall mean [either] (a) the combination of two or
    5  more local government entities  resulting  in  the  termination  of  the
    6  existence of each of the entities to be consolidated and the creation of
    7  a new entity which assumes jurisdiction over all of the terminated enti-
    8  ties[, or]; (b) the combination of two or more local government entities
    9  resulting  in  the  termination  of  the existence of all but one of the
   10  entities which shall absorb the terminated entity or  entities;  OR  (C)
   11  THE ALTERATION OF THE BORDERS OF A VILLAGE TO BE COTERMINOUS WITH A TOWN
   12  WHEN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUCH CONTERMINOUS BORDERS CAN BE DEMONSTRATED
   13  BY  THE  TOWN  AND VILLAGE TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
   14  THAT A CONSOLIDATION OF SERVICES SHALL OCCUR PRODUCING A NET SAVINGS  TO
   15  PROPERTY TAXPAYERS.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15002-02-2