Provides that the election of chief and assistant chief by a fire department may be on the same day as the day of election of the fire department's election of administration officers.
Relates to county-wide shared services panels; includes library districts within county-wide shared services panels; establishes the municipal efficiency fund to provide counties with awards of matching funds upon certification by the department of state.
Allows Westchester county to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities based on the combined average poverty rate and unemployment rate.
Includes all counties and cities with a population of two hundred thousand or less within provisions which permit the apportionment of expense of municipal police department member training, thus allowing police departments to receive reimbursement of training costs if an officer is hired by another department.
Authorizes the town of Brookhaven to alienate certain parklands for the purpose of constructing a municipal drainage system and acquire and dedicate certain other lands as parklands.
Establishes an administrative adjudication hearing procedure for code and ordinance violations for the city of Long Beach for all code and ordinance violations relating to conditions which constitute a threat or danger to the public health, safety or welfare.
Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems.
Authorizes cities and towns, except a city with a population of one million or more, to establish community housing funds; authorizes such cities and towns to impose a real estate transfer tax with revenues to be deposited in such funds; makes related provisions.
Provides for the purposes of the volunteer and exempt firemen's benevolent association of East Syracuse; changes the title of the association to include firefighters; directs the use of tax monies received to go towards furthering the purposes of such association.