[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Poughkeepsie 10-13-1993 by L.L. No. 13-1993 (Part 1, Subpart 16,
of the 1964 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Every local law or ordinance or supplemental
to a local law or ordinance hereafter adopted or approved by the Town
Board of the Town of Poughkeepsie, which is or may be required to
be published in one or more newspapers in order to make
such local law, ordinance, amendment or supplement effectual, may
not be published in full, but it shall be sufficient to publish in
such newspaper or newspapers a notice setting forth the title thereof,
a brief description, in plain English, of the provisions thereof and
a statement that the full text thereof is on file and may be inspected
in the office of the Town Clerk.
Every local law or ordinance and every amendment
or supplement to a local law or ordinance proposed for consideration,
at the time the date for a public hearing or any adjourned public
hearing, may be summarized by a member of the Town Board, and there
shall not be any obligation to read the proposed local law, ordinance,
amendment or supplement verbatim, and a summary of the proposed local
law or ordinance and every amendment and supplement to the local law
or ordinance, unless requested by the public, may be adopted on a
summary statement of its purpose in lieu of a verbatim recitation
thereof.
This chapter shall supercede, in its application
to the Town of Poughkeepsie, the provisions of §§ 133,
264 and 265 of the Town Law relating to the publication and method
of introduction and adoption of an ordinance, amendment or a supplement
to an ordinance and § 20 of the Municipal Home Rule Law
relating to the publication and method of introduction and adoption
of a local law, amendment or supplement to a local law adopted or
approved by the Town Board.
This chapter shall be subject to a referendum
on petition pursuant to § 24 of the Municipal Home Rule
Law and is adopted pursuant to the home rule power of the Town of
Poughkeepsie as authorized by § 10, Subdivision 1(ii)d(3),
Municipal Home Rule Law.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was approved
at a referendum held 11-24-1993.
