N.Y. Alt. County Gov't Law § 654 Advance Notice of Petition; Effect

• Library: New York Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 NY Law Chapter 777
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.Y. Alt. County Gov't Law § 654

Any elector of the county may file with the clerk of the board of supervisors advance notice of his intention to prepare, circulate and file a petition for the submission of any question authorized by this chapter. Any such notice shall specify the alternative form of county government proposed, together with any variations and shall be accompanied by a deposit of twenty-five dollars. If the board of supervisors shall have adopted a resolution initiating a proceeding for the adoption of an alternative form of county government, with or without variations, within ten days after the filing of such an advance notice, then and in that event such advance notice shall have no further force and effect and the twenty-five dollars deposited shall be refunded to the person making the deposit. In the event that no such resolution is adopted by the board of supervisors within such period of ten days after the filing of such an advance notice, then and in that event if one-third of the number of signatures required for the submission of the question are filed with such clerk within twenty days and the remaining two-thirds within forty days after the filing of the notice, the twenty-five dol...