Bill Text: NY A09918 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to village justices; changes the title of acting justice to associate justice.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-19 - signed chap.259 [A09918 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9918
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 27, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to village justices
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of  subdivision  2  of  section  3-301  of  the
     2  village  law,  as amended by chapter 555 of the laws of 2006, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    a. except as provided in section 3-303 of this article, no  more  than
     5  two  village  justices,  but  in the event a village has one justice, it
     6  shall also have an [acting]  associate  justice  who  shall  serve  when
     7  requested  by  the village justice or in the absence or inability of the
     8  village justice to serve. The office of village justice is continued  in
     9  every  village  in which it is now established. The board of trustees of
    10  any other village may establish such office by resolution or local  law,
    11  subject to a permissive referendum. The board of trustees of any village
    12  by  resolution or local law, subject to permissive referendum, may abol-
    13  ish such office, but to take effect only upon the expiration of the then
    14  current term of such office,  or  establish  the  office  of  additional
    15  village  justices,  which justice once elected shall have all the powers
    16  and duties of a village justice. The resolution  or  local  law  in  the
    17  latter  case  shall provide for a term pursuant to section 3-302 of this
    18  article. The clerk of the court of a village shall  be  discharged  from
    19  employment  only  upon  the advice and consent of the village justice or
    20  justices when the clerk, in his or her village duties, works solely  for
    21  the village justice or justices.
    22    § 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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