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History
- Signed chap.249
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.584
- Substituted for A2379
- Referred to local governments
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.65
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- Referred to local government
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Makes the vote of municipal officers on contracts regarding rural electric cooperatives a permissible conflict of interest
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor William Magee
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the vote of municipal officers on contracts regarding rural electric cooperatives
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill would clarify that it is not a conflict of interest for locally elected officials to vote on contracts which involve rural electric cooperatives that they may be members of.
Summary of specific provisions
Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 802 of the general municipal law is amended.
Justification
There are fairly large swaths of rural New York that are served by rural electric cooperatives and for which the ones they serve - their members - have no choice but to belong. More than that, these electric cooperatives are non-profit membership corporations.
Given this it would only make sense to statutorily clarify that it is a permissible conflict of interest for locally elected officials to be able to vote on issues and contracts involving the municipality they represent and the electric cooperative they receive their energy from. It is important to note that this is very similar to provisions within the current statute which allows municipal officers who own stock in an investor owned utility to vote and take part in contracts involving that utility and the municipality.
Prior legislative history
Introduced as S.6646 in 2008
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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