Bill Text: NY A09884 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the towns of Mina and French Creek in Chautauqua county to elect a single town justice to preside in the town courts of such towns.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-07-29 - SIGNED CHAP.129 [A09884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09884-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9884--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 20, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Local  Governments  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the town law, in relation to authorizing the towns of
          Mina and French Creek in Chautauqua county  to  elect  a  single  town
          justice to preside in the town courts of such towns

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 20 of the town law is  amended  by
     2  adding a new paragraph (q) to read as follows:
     3    (q)  Pursuant  to  section 106-b of the uniform justice court act, the
     4  towns of Mina and French Creek in Chautauqua County have  conducted  and
     5  completed a study, each town having adopted a joint resolution providing
     6  for  the  study,  conducted  a  public  hearing upon the findings of the
     7  study, and adopted a joint resolution adopting such plan  providing  for
     8  the  abolition  of  existing town justice positions in the towns of Mina
     9  and French Creek and providing for the election of a single town justice
    10  to preside in the town courts of such towns. The  town  justice  elected
    11  pursuant  to  this  plan  shall  preside in the towns of Mina and French
    12  Creek following the next  general  election  in  such  towns  and  shall
    13  preside for the year term as elected.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14934-03-0