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A01583 Summary:

BILL NOA01583 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRMcDonough, DeStefano, Shimsky

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §23, Town L

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Imposes a term limit of four years on town supervisors.

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01/10/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1583

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to imposing term limits on
 town supervisors

 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 23 of the town law, as amended by
 2 chapter 238 of the laws of 2001, paragraphs (d) and (e) as amended by
 3 chapter 554 of the laws of 2007, and paragraph (f) as amended and para-
 4 graph (g) as added by chapter 87 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read
 5 as follows:
 6 1. (a) Every elective officer of the town at the time of [his] their
 7 election and throughout [his] their term of office, shall be an elector
 8 of the town. Every other officer of the town at the time of [his] their
 9 appointment and throughout [his] their term of office shall be an elec-
 10 tor of the town except that: [(a)]
 11 (i) in towns having no resident attorney, the town attorney and such
 12 counsel as may be employed need not be electors; and
 13 [(b)] (ii) in towns having no resident engineer and in the towns of
 14 Mount Pleasant, Westchester county, North Castle, Westchester county,
 15 Lewisboro, Westchester county, Somers, Westchester county, Carmel,
 16 Putnam county, and Ithaca, Tompkins county, the town engineer and such
 17 consultant engineers as may be employed need not be electors; and
 18 [(c)] (iii) in the towns of North Castle, Westchester county, North
 19 Salem, Lewisboro and Pound Ridge, Westchester county, the town building
 20 inspector and such deputy building inspectors as may be employed need
 21 not be electors; and
 22 [(d)] (iv) in the town of Lewisboro, Westchester county, the town
 23 wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and
 24 [(e)] (v) in the towns of Carmel and Patterson, Putnam county, the
 25 town wetlands inspector need not be an elector; and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03074-01-5

 A. 1583 2

 1 [(f)] (vi) in the town of Hamlin, Monroe county, the court clerk need
 2 not be an elector; and
 3 [(g)] (vii) in towns participating in a shared town justice agreement
 4 pursuant to section one hundred six-b of the uniform justice court act,
 5 a town justice may be an elector of any town participating in such an
 6 agreement.
 7 (b) No county treasurer, district superintendent of schools, or trus-
 8 tee of a school district shall be eligible to the office of supervisor.
 9 (c) No person shall be eligible to be elected to the position of
 10 supervisor who has held the position of supervisor of the town for four
 11 or more years.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 13 law.

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