STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8934--B
                                                                Cal. No. 480

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  correcting
          gendered language

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 42 of the public officers law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  528  of  the  laws  of 1950, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. Whenever the authority to fill any vacancy is vested in a board and
     5  such board is unable to fill such  vacancy  in  an  elective  office  by
     6  reason  of  a  tie vote, or such board neglects to fill such vacancy for
     7  any  other  reason,  the  governor  may,  [in  his]  at  the  governor's
     8  discretion, make proclamation of a special election to fill the vacancy.
     9    § 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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