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A1512Assembly2017-2018 Session

All Towns Count as Municipalities

Official title

“Eliminates a population requirement for definition of municipality”

Sponsor Kenneth ZebrowskiAD-96+3 co-sponsors
Status
In Assembly Committee
Governmental Operations
Impact
4/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Governmental Operations

What's happening

This bill removes the population requirement from the definition of "municipality" in New York legislative law.

Why it matters

  1. Expands the definition of "municipality". so that very small towns, villages, and districts—regardless of population—are now explicitly included in laws that reference municipalities. This could mean more local entities are subject to or protected by state legislative provisions.

  2. Removes a potential barrier for smaller communities. to access state programs, funding, or responsibilities previously limited to jurisdictions with populations above 5,000. This could impact how resources and obligations are distributed across New York State.

  3. Changes who must comply with certain state regulations. (such as lobbying laws or reporting requirements), as smaller municipalities and their agencies (like improvement districts and industrial development agencies) would now be included under the law. This could increase administrative duties for small local governments.

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All Towns Count as Municipalities

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Kenneth Zebrowski

Assembly Member · Assembly District 96

History

  1. Referred to governmental operations
  2. Referred to governmental operations

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

1512

2017-2018 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

January 12, 2017

Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to eliminating the population requirement for the definition of a municipality

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

Section 1. Subdivision (k) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as amended by section 6 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:

(k) The term "municipality" shall mean any jurisdictional subdivision of the state, including but not limited to counties, cities, towns, villages, improvement districts and special districts, [with a population of more than five thousand,] and industrial development agencies [in jurisdictional subdivisions with a population of more than five thousand]; and public authorities, and public corporations.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD04389-01-7

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