Bill Text: NY S07930 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to appointing instead of electing a treasurer for the park district in the town of Southold, county of Suffolk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8585 [S07930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07930-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7930

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend chapter 234 of the laws of 1907 relating to  authorizing
          the  formation  of  a  park  district in the town of Southold, Suffolk
          county, to acquire lands for park purposes, and to issue bonds  there-
          for, in relation to appointment of a treasurer by the park commission-
          ers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Sections 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 234 of  the  laws  of  1907
     2  relating  to authorizing the formation of a park district in the town of
     3  Southold, Suffolk county, to acquire lands for  park  purposes,  and  to
     4  issue bonds therefor are amended to read as follows:
     5    §  2. When such park district has been established in the manner above
     6  provided, the legal voters thereof may elect three residents thereof  to
     7  be  the  park commissioners, one of whom may be a female over twenty-one
     8  years of age, for a term of one, two, and three years respectively[; and
     9  may also elect]. The park commissioners shall  appoint  a  treasurer  in
    10  such park district [for a term of three years,] who shall be entitled to
    11  receive  and  have  custody of the funds of the district and pay out the
    12  same for the purposes herein provided for, on  the  order  of  the  park
    13  commissioners,  which  treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his
    14  office, shall give such security as the board of park commissioners  may
    15  require.
    16    §  3. The first election of such park commissioners and appointment of
    17  such treasurer shall be called by the clerk of  the  town  of  Southold,
    18  within thirty days from the formation of said district by the posting of
    19  notices  conspicuously  of  such  election  in at least four of the most
    20  public places in said district and publishing the same  in  a  newspaper
    21  published  therein for two weeks immediately preceding such election and
    22  appointment.
    23    § 4. All subsequent elections and appointments shall be called in  the
    24  same  manner  by the clerk of the town of Southold, not less than thirty
    25  days prior to the expiration of the term of office of any  such  commis-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13803-01-3
        S. 7930                             2

     1  sioners  or  of the treasurer; special elections or appointments to fill
     2  any vacancies shall be called in the same  manner,  within  thirty  days
     3  after  any  such  vacancies shall occur; all elections for commissioners
     4  [and treasurer] shall be by ballot.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.