Bill Text: NY S08423 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8423

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits a member of the board of trustees and the mayor from being appointed to the board of assessors for a village.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S08423 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8423

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to removing the ability  of
          a board of trustees and mayor to act as the board of assessors

          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 2 and subdivision 3  of  section
     2  3-301  of  the  village  law, paragraph b of subdivision 2 as amended by
     3  chapter 735 of the laws of 1983, are amended to read as follows:
     4    b. assessor or assessors, provided, however, that the board  of  trus-
     5  tees  by  resolution  or local law may consolidate the offices of clerk,
     6  treasurer, and assessor or any two of such offices. [The board of  trus-
     7  tees  may also determine, by local law or resolution, that such board of
     8  trustees shall act as the board of assessors or may appoint  such  board
     9  from  their  members.]  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
    10  paragraph, a village which has enacted a local law as provided in subdi-
    11  vision three of section fourteen hundred two of the  real  property  tax
    12  law  shall  not  have an assessor or assessors in any year in which such
    13  local law is in effect.
    14    3. The mayor, trustees and village justices shall  be  elective  offi-
    15  cers.    All  other officers shall be appointed by the mayor, subject to
    16  the approval of the board of trustees; provided, however, no  member  of
    17  the  board of trustees or mayor shall be appointed a member of the board
    18  of assessors for the same village.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    21  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    22  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    23  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13397-01-3