Bill Text: NY A00292 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.27 [A00292 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00292-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           292
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic
          version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is amended to
     2  read as follows:
     3    6.  At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or
     4  near the main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with  the  name
     5  of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
     6  ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
     7  the  legal  notices  of  the town. Such sign-board and, in any town that
     8  maintains a website, an electronic version of such sign-board  shall  be
     9  one  of  the  public  places  upon which any legal notice may be posted.
    10  Towns which maintain a website shall maintain an electronic  version  of
    11  such  sign-board  and shall post a link to the electronic version of the
    12  sign-board on its homepage.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02385-01-7