[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Lansing
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-15-2022 by L.L. No. 5-2022]
It is the intent of this article to give the Town Board, the
Planning Board, the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Conservation Advisory
Council, the Board of Ethics, and the other public and nonpublic bodies
and committees of the Town, be they advisory in nature or otherwise,
the authority to participate in meetings via videoconference in a
manner consistent with the Town's videoconferencing policy and
the authority granted in Public Officers Law § 103-a.
This article is adopted pursuant to Public Officers Law § 103-a,
which expressly authorizes the Town Board to adopt a local law giving
the Town Board, and all public bodies and agencies of the Town of
Lansing, the authority to participate in meetings via videoconference
from locations not accessible to the public, so long as, when required
by the Open Meetings Law (Public Officers Law Article 7), or other
requirements of New York State law: i) a quorum of the board/body
participates from locations where the public may be physically present;
and ii) all other requirements of the Public Officers Law are met
and the conditions of this article and the Town videoconferencing
policy are properly met.
The Town Board of the Town of Lansing hereby authorizes members
of the Town Board, the Planning Board, the Board of Zoning Appeals,
the Conservation Advisory Council, the Board of Ethics, and the other
public and nonpublic bodies and committees of the Town, be they advisory
in nature or otherwise, to participate in meetings using videoconferencing
technology in a manner consistent with Public Officers Law § 103-a
and the Town's videoconferencing policy, as adopted and amended,
from time to time, by the Town Board.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part of
this article or the application thereof to any person, firm or corporation,
or circumstance, shall be adjudged by any court or tribunal of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional, such order or judgment
shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but
shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,
subdivision, or part of this article or in its application to the
person, individual, firm or corporation or circumstance, directly
involved in the controversy in which such judgment or order was rendered.
This article shall take effect immediately.
