This chapter is enacted pursuant to the authority of Chapter 365 of the Laws of 1976, which added a new subparagraph (3) to paragraph (D) of Subdivision 1 of § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law authorizing towns to adopt a local law which amends or supersedes any provision of the Town Law in relation to the property, affairs or government of the Town or in relation to any of the other enumerated subject matters in such § 10, unless there is a state legislative restriction on such amendment or supersession.
In order to permit the Planning Board to transact business in the event that absence or conflicts of interest preclude a full membership of five members from considering a particular matter, it is deemed advantageous by the Town Board of the Town of Barton to enact a local law superseding Town Law § 271, Subdivision 1, to provide for appointment for ad hoc members to the Planning Board.
Section 271, Subdivision 1, of the Town Law is hereby amended and superseded in its application to the Town of Barton by adding a new subparagraph 271, Subdivision 1 (a), providing as follows:
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The Town Board of the Town of Barton may, in any year it deems necessary, appoint temporary ad hoc members to the Planning Board to serve as provided in this section. The number of temporary members so appointed pursuant to this section in any year shall not exceed two. Each temporary member shall be appointed for a one-year term of office. The Chairman of the Planning Board shall assign the temporary members as necessary when absence of regular members of the Board would otherwise prevent five members of the Board from considering any pending matters. The temporary members shall, so far as is reasonably possible, be designated on a rotating basis in the manner which may be provided in the general governing rules of the Planning Board so that each temporary member shall have the same powers and duties as regular members of the Board until that meeting is concluded. Any determination by the Board consisting of temporary members shall have the same weight and be entitled to the same authority as the act or deed of the regular Planning Board, and all laws, statutes and regulations shall apply and be applied with equal force and effect.