Bill Text: NY S04483 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the filling of vacancies for elective offices in villages with November elections; provides such vacancies shall be filled in accordance with subdivision one of section forty-two of the public officers law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04483-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4483

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  filling  vacancies  in
          elective offices in villages with November elections

          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  3  of  section  3-312  of  the
     2  village  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  subparagraph 3 to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (3) Whenever a village, pursuant to section  15-104  of  the  election
     5  law,  has  provided that village elections shall occur on the day of the
     6  general election such vacancy shall be filled in accordance with  subdi-
     7  vision one of section forty-two of the public officers law.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08430-01-5