New York S 5245: Relates to Eastchester fire district elections

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S05245 Summary:

BILL NOS05245 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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Amd §§856, 854, 858, 859, 862, 868, 870 & 875, rpld §§861 & 882, Art 18-A Title 2, Gen Muni L

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Establishes a single industrial development agency in each region of the state.

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BILL NOS05245 

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02/20/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5245

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 20, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to establishing
 regional industrial development agencies; and to repeal certain
 provisions of such law relating thereto

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

 1 Section 1. Section 856 of the general municipal law, as added by chap-
 2 ter 1030 of the laws of 1969, paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 as added by
 3 chapter 692 of the laws of 1989 and subdivision 2 as amended by chapter
 4 356 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 856. [Organization] Establishment and organization of regional
 6 industrial development agencies. 1. (a) [Upon the establishment of an
 7 industrial development agency by special act of the legislature, the
 8 governing body of the municipality for whose benefit such agency is
 9 established shall file within six months after the effective date of the
 10 special act of the legislature establishing such agency or before the
 11 first day of July, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, whichever date shall be
 12 later, in the office of the secretary of state, a certificate setting
 13 forth: (1) the date of passage of the special act establishing the agen-
 14 cy; (2) the name of the agency; (3) the names of the members and their
 15 terms of office, specifying which member is the chairman; and (4) facts
 16 establishing the need for the establishment of an agency in such munici-
 17 pality.
 18 (b) Every such agency shall be perpetual in duration, except that if
 19 (1) such certificate is not filed with the secretary of state within six
 20 months after the effective date of the special act of the legislature
 21 establishing such agency or before the first day of July, nineteen
 22 hundred sixty-nine, whichever date shall be later, or if (2) at the
 23 expiration of ten years subsequent to the effective date of the special
 24 act, there shall be outstanding no bonds or other obligations thereto-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08910-01-5

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 1 fore issued by such agency or by the municipality for or in behalf of
 2 the agency, then the corporate existence of such agency shall thereupon
 3 terminate and it shall thereupon be deemed to be and shall be dissolved.
 4 (c) On or before March first of each year, the secretary of state
 5 shall prepare a list of agencies which failed to file a certificate in
 6 accordance with provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivision within
 7 the preceding calendar year and transmit a copy of such list to the
 8 state comptroller and the commissioner of the department of economic
 9 development. On or before March first of each year the commissioner of
 10 the department of economic development shall prepare a list of agencies
 11 which have dissolved pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision or
 12 have ceased to exist pursuant to section eight hundred eighty-two of
 13 this chapter and shall transmit a copy of such list to the state comp-
 14 troller.] There is hereby established ten regional industrial develop-
 15 ment agencies, one for each of the following regions of the state:
 16 (i) Long Island (which consists of Suffolk and Nassau counties);
 17 (ii) the city of New York (which consists of Bronx, New York, Queens,
 18 Brooklyn, and Richmond counties);
 19 (iii) the Mid-Hud