STATE OF NEW YORK
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                    IN SENATE
                                     April 25, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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  punishment
          for the violation of a local law
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 10 of the munici-
     2  pal home rule law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (b) To provide for the enforcement of local laws by legal or equitable
     4  proceedings which are or may  be  provided  or  authorized  by  law,  to
     5  prescribe   that   violations  thereof  shall  constitute  misdemeanors,
     6  offenses or infractions and to provide for the punishment of  violations
     7  thereof by civil penalty, fine, forfeiture, community service, where the
     8  defendant has consented to the amount and conditions of such service, or
     9  imprisonment,  or by two or more of such punishments, provided, however,
    10  that a local law adopted pursuant to subdivision  two  of  this  section
    11  shall  provide  only  for  such  enforcement  or  punishment as could be
    12  prescribed if the action of the legislative body  were  taken  by  ordi-
    13  nance, resolution, rule or regulation, as the case may be.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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