§ 27 — Filing and publication of local laws

New York § 27

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law MHR: Municipal Home Rule
• Art. 3: Procedure For Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication

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§ 27. Filing and publication of local laws. 1. Within twenty days\nafter a local law shall finally have been adopted, the clerk, or other\nofficer designated by the legislative body, shall file one certified\ncopy thereof in the office of such clerk except that in the case of a\ncounty it shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk and one\ncertified copy in the office of the secretary of state. In the case of a\nlocal law subject to a referendum, however, such local law shall be\nfiled within twenty days after its approval by the electors, or where\nthe local law was subject to a permissive referendum and no petition was\nfiled requesting the referendum, the local law shall be filed within\ntwenty days after the time for filing of such petition shall have\nexpired.\n 2. Each such certified copy shall contain the text only of the local\nlaw without the brackets and without the matter within the brackets, the\nmatter with a line run through it, or the italicizing or underscoring,\nif any, to indicate the changes made by it, except that each such\ncertified copy of a local law enacted by a city with a population of one\nmillion or more shall be printed in the same form as the official copy\nof the proposed local law which became the local law provided that line\nnumbers, the printed number of the bill and explanatory matter shall be\nomitted.\n 3. Notwithstanding the effective date of any local law, a local law\nshall not become effective before it is filed in the office of the\nsecretary of state.\n 4. Subject to the provisions of subdivision three hereof, every local\nlaw shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall finally have\nbeen adopted unless a different time shall be prescribed therein or\nrequired by this chapter or other provision of law.\n 5. The secretary of state shall publish annually local laws on the\ndepartment of state website and in a separate volume as a supplement to\nthe session laws, and shall publish at least annually on the department\nof state website a complete codification of all local laws in effect\nthat have been adopted by the legislative body of each county. The\nclerk, or other officer designated by the legislative body of each\ncounty, shall provide local laws to the secretary of state in a manner\nspecified by the secretary of state to facilitate the publication\nrequirements of this subdivision.\n 6. The clerk shall record all local laws filed in his office in a\nseparate book or books, which shall be indexed by him.\n 7. The secretary of state shall have the authority to provide for the\nreceipt and filing of local laws by electronic transmission.\n