NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF LOCAL LAW
SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM
INCORPORATED VILLAGE OF OLD BROOKVILLE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Old Brookville, Nassau County, New York, at a meeting of said Board duly called and held on September23, 2013, at which a quorum was present and voting, after due notice, adopted Local Law 2-2013, entitled “Terms of Office” which reads as follows:
VILLAGE OF OLD BROOKVILLE
PROPOSED LOCAL LAW 2-2013
TERMS OF OFFICE
A Local Law entitled "Terms of Office" which extends the terms of office of the Mayor and Trustees to four years and establishes biennial elections in odd-numbered years.
BE IT ENACTED by the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village of Old Brookville as follows:
SECTION 1. Legislative Purpose.
The Village Board of Trustees finds that the key elective positions within the Village of the Mayor and Trustees would benefit from a longer term of office so as to provide for greater constancy, continuity and efficiency for the Village. These positions require a great amount of experience, skill and knowledge, and therefore, a longer term is needed. New York State Village Law allows Villages to change the terms of office for the Mayor and Trustees from a two (2) year term to a four (4) year term. Under the present two (2) year terms for said offices, there are currently annual elections. Changing to four (4) year terms would result in elections every two years. It is the purpose of this local law to expand the terms of office for the Mayor and Trustees from two (2) years to four (4) years.
SECTION 2. Extension of Terms.
Pursuant to Village Law § 3-302(5)(a), the terms of office for the Mayor and Trustees of the Village of Old Brookville shall be four (4) years, except as provided in Section 4 below.
SECTION 3. General Elections.
Except for the offices of the Trustees who terms expire in 2014, pursuant to Village Law § 3-302(7)(a), Village general elections shall be conducted biennially in odd-numbered years hereafter.
SECTION 4. Initial Terms.
Pursuant to Village Law § 3-302(7)(d), the initial terms of office for the offices of Trustees whose terms expire in 2014 shall be three (3) years, but their successors shall thereafter be elected for terms of four (4) years.
SECTION 5. Validity.
If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this law is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, then said holding will in no way affect the validity of the remaining portions of this law.
SECTION 6. Effective Date.
This law is subject to a permissive referendum and therefore shall not take effect until thirty (30) days after its adoption; nor until approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the Village voting on such proposition for its approval if within thirty days after its adoption a petition is filed with the Village Clerk pursuant to Village Law § 9-902(1).
NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that the aforesaid local law, adopted on September 23, 2013, is subject to a permissive referendum and shall not takeeffect until thirty (30) days after its adoption; nor until approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the Village voting on such proposition for its approval if within thirty days after its adoption there be filed with the Village Clerk a petition signed and acknowledged by the electors of the Village in number equal to at least twenty per centum of such electors in the Village, as shown on the register of electors for the previous general village election, protesting against such local law and requesting that it be submitted to the electors of the Village for their approval or disapproval.
By Order of the Board of Trustees
Sandy Albro
Village Clerk/Treasurer
Date: September 23, 2013