Requires an electronic version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website and a link to the sign-board to appear on the town website's homepage if the town maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high speed internet connection.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6229
SPONSOR: Thiele TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic
version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
PURPOSE:
To increase resident knowledge about all town actions that require an
official legal notice.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends subdivision 6 of § 30 of the town law, requiring any
town that maintains a website to create and maintain an electronic
version of the town clerk's signboard. However, a town shall not be
required to maintain an electronic signboard should the town incur addi-
tional costs.
Section 2: Effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Most town residents get their information about town government and
possible town actions or events from the internet rather than physically
going to town hall to look at notices. By creating an electronic version
of the town's sign-board, this bill enables residents to have quick and
easy access to town notices, allowing them to be better-informed citi-
zens.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2019-20: S.1146
2017-18: S.5504
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to state or to local governments.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6229
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 10, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to requiring an electronic
version of a town clerk's sign-board on a town website
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 30 of the town law is amended to
2 read as follows:
3 6. At the expense of the town he or she shall procure and affix on or
4 near the main entrance to his or her office a sign-board with the name
5 of the town followed by the words "town clerk's office" in plain charac-
6 ters thereon with sufficient space immediately below for posting thereon
7 the legal notices of the town. Such sign-board and, in any town that
8 maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high
9 speed internet connection, an electronic version of such sign-board
10 shall be one of the public places upon which any legal notice may be
11 posted. Towns which maintain a regularly and routinely updated website
12 and utilizes a high speed internet connection shall, to the extent prac-
13 ticable, maintain an electronic version of such sign-board and shall
14 post a link to the electronic version of the sign-board on its homepage.
15 An electronic version of such sign-board shall include a town website
16 page designed or intended to provide electronic access to public
17 notices. A town shall not be required to maintain an electronic sign-
18 board pursuant to this subdivision should the town incur additional
19 costs in order to comply.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08238-01-1
