[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Great Neck Plaza 11-2-2022 by L.L. No. 7-2022.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was adopted subject to permissive
referendum; no valid petition for referendum was filed.
A.
As authorized by New York State Village Law § 3-302, Subdivision
5a, all Trustees elected in the 2023 general Village election, and
the successors to each such office in future elections, shall be elected
to terms of four years each.
B.
Those persons elected to the offices of Mayor and Trustees in the
2024 general election shall each be elected for a term of five years,
as authorized by § 3-302, Subdivision 7c, of the New York
State Village Law. Thereafter, as authorized by § 3-302,
Subdivision 5a, of the New York State Village Law, the successors
to each such office shall be elected in future elections to terms
of four years each.
After Village elections are held in 2023 and 2024 to fill the
positions of Mayor and Trustees which will expire in those years,
the next general Village election shall be held in 2027, when the
terms of office of the Trustees elected in 2023 shall end. Thereafter,
as their terms expire, elections for the offices of Mayor and Trustees
shall be held biennially in odd-numbered years, as authorized by § 3-302,
Subdivision 7a, of the New York State Village Law.
Nothing herein shall affect the length of the term of office
of the Village Justice which, in accordance with § 3-302,
Subdivision 3, of the New York State Village Law, is four years. The
next election for such position shall take place at the general Village
election in 2023, and future elections for this position shall take
place every fourth year in an odd-numbered year.
