Town of Amherst, NY
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2023-07-24
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 55 Term Limits
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 5 Design Advisory Board
- Ch 6 Arts and Culture in Public Places Board
- Ch 7 Amherst Central Park Task Force
- Ch 8 Citizens' Advisory Committees
- Ch 9 Clerk
- Ch 10 Compensation
- Ch 11 Continuity of Government
- Ch 12 Employee Suggestion Program
- Ch 14 Defense and Indemnification of Employees
- Ch 14A Disabilities, Committee on
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Employees' Rights of Organization
- Ch 19 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 22 Freedom of Information
- Ch 25 Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board
- Ch 28 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 32 Minority- and Women-Owned Business Utilization Commitment
- Ch 36 Open Burning
- Ch 39 Police Assistance, Power to Grant
- Ch 40 Purchasing
- Ch 42 Property, Lease or Sale
- Ch 43 Licensing of Property Managers
- Ch 44 Rental Unit Registration
- Ch 45 Residency Requirements
- Ch 52 Superintendent of Highways
- Ch 54 Supervisor
- Ch 55 Term Limits
- § 55-1 Title.
- § 55-2 Legislative intent.
- § 55-3 Term limits established.
- § 55-4 Partial term of office.
- § 55-5 Other elective office.
- § 55-6 Exclusion.
- § 55-7 Authority.
- Ch 56 Tax Bill Enclosures
- Ch 56A Town Board
- Ch 57 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Ch 58 Adjudicatory Proceedings
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 65 Alarms
- Ch 68 Amusements
- Ch 74 (Reserved)
- Ch 77 Bingo
- Ch 78 Blasting and Explosives
- Ch 79 Boats
- Ch 83 Building Construction Administration
- Ch 85 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 87 Cable Television
- Ch 89 (Reserved)
- Ch 92 Conservation Easements
- Ch 95 Curb Cuts
- Ch 96 (Reserved)
- Ch 99 Animals
- Ch 103 Emergency Responder Radio Coverage
- Ch 104 Environmental Quality Review
- Ch 106 Excavations
- Ch 108 Expert Fees, Reimbursement of
- Ch 110 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 Games of Chance
- Ch 116 (Reserved)
- Ch 118 Gasoline
- Ch 119 Geodetic Control Point Network
- Ch 120 Highways, Controlled-Access
- Ch 121 Historic Preservation
- Ch 122 House Trailers
- Ch 125 Improvements, Construction of Public
- Ch 126 Industrial Cost Recovery System
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Junkyards
- Ch 130 Landscapers
- Ch 132 Lighting
- Ch 138 Noise
- Ch 139 Notification of Defects
- Ch 140 Mailbox Setback
- Ch 143 Parking for Handicapped
- Ch 144 Parking, Off-Street
- Ch 145 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreation Areas
- Ch 148 Peddling, Soliciting, Transient Businesses and Mobile Food Vending
- Ch 149 Picketing
- Ch 151 Property Maintenance
- Ch 152 Public Nuisance Abatement
- Ch 153 Municipal Opioid Cost Recovery and Public Nuisance
- Ch 155 Recreation and Open Space
- Ch 157 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 158 Sewer Rates
- Ch 160 Sewers
- Ch 163 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 166 Snowplowing
- Ch 167 Social Host Liability
- Ch 169 Solid Waste
- Ch 172 Stormwater and Erosion Control; Illicit Discharges
- Ch 175 Taxation
- Ch 177 Taxicabs
- Ch 179 Trees
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Ch 184 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 186 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 189 Vehicles, Removal and Storage of
- Ch 191 Vending Machines
- Ch 194 (Reserved)
- Ch 198 Weapons
- Ch 199 Wild Waterfowl
- Ch 200 Wetlands
- Ch 203 Zoning
- Ch 204 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 205 Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (Lwrp)
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Amherst 8-21-2006 by L.L. No.
10-2006. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The title of this chapter shall be the "Term Limits Law."
It is the intent of the Town Board of the Town of Amherst to
expand participation in the electoral process and to bring new ideas
to governance of the Town of Amherst. To these ends, the Town Board
of the Town of Amherst adopts this chapter to limit terms of office
for elected officials in the Town of Amherst.
No elective public officer of the Town of Amherst shall have
more than two consecutive terms of four years each in the same public
office. For purposes of this chapter, "same public office" shall mean
any and all public offices that are the same as the office that the
elective public officer last held. Any terms of office held prior
to the November 6, 2007, general election shall not be counted for
term limitation purposes.
Nothing contained herein shall prohibit an elective public officer
in the Town of Amherst from holding either an elective or appointive
partial term in the same elective public office, immediately prior
to election to that elective public office for a full term. In that
event, the partial term shall not be counted for purposes of the term
limitation imposed by this chapter.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit an elective
public officer from seeking, being elected to, or holding another
and different elective public office in the Town of Amherst at the
conclusion of a term of public office as required by this chapter.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to the office
of Town Justice of the Town of Amherst.
This chapter is enacted pursuant to § 10(1)(ii)(a)
of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York which authorizes
towns to adopt local laws concerning the mode of selection and terms
of office of elected officials.
