Bill Text: NY S07328 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to merging town justice courts; excepts the towns of Erin and Chemung from the requirement that towns form a contiguous geographic area in order to merge their town courts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.205 [S07328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07328-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7328
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 15, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the uniform justice court act, in  relation  to  merging
          town justice courts
          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 106-a  of  the  uniform  justice
     2  court  act,  as amended by section 2 of part L of chapter 56 of the laws
     3  of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The town boards of  two  or  more  towns  that  form  a  contiguous
     5  geographic  area  within the same county are hereby authorized to estab-
     6  lish a single town court to be comprised of town justices to be  elected
     7  from  each  of  such  towns in the same manner and for the same terms as
     8  town justices are so elected except that the number of such terms expir-
     9  ing in any one year may not exceed by more than one the number of  terms
    10  expiring in any other year in which terms expire; provided, however, the
    11  town boards of the towns of Erin and Chemung in Chemung county are here-
    12  by  authorized  to  establish a single town court in accordance with the
    13  provisions of this section. The procedure to establish such single court
    14  may be initiated by the town board or may be initiated by  petition.  In
    15  the  event the procedure is initiated by petition, the petition shall be
    16  addressed to each town board and shall be  signed  by  at  least  twenty
    17  percent of the registered voters in such towns.
    18    § 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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