[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Malta 5-1-1995 by L.L. No. 2-1995. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The legislative body of the Town of Malta finds that:
A. 
The Town Board of the Town of Malta must periodically amend, modify or supplement the various chapters of the Town Code of the Town of Malta.
B. 
Current New York State law (§§ 264 and 265 and other sections of the Town Law) requires that after a local law is adopted, the entire law must be published in the official periodical of the municipality for said law to be valid.
C. 
The New York State Municipal Home Rule Law § 1 et seq. permits a municipality to adopt a law which legislates that an abstract or summary of the law be published rather than the entire law, provided that the same gives adequate notice to the public.
D. 
The Town Board believes that an abstract or summary will provide proper legal notice to the public, while at the same time reducing unnecessary expenditures by the Town.
A. 
Pursuant to New York State Municipal Home Rule Law, the Town Board hereby legislates that at any and all times in which it adopts a local law, only an abstract of said new local law shall be published in the official periodical of the Town of Malta.
B. 
Said abstract shall provide to the public a detailed description of the purpose of the local law. In addition, the abstract shall set forth the provisions of the law in sufficient language to enable the public to be informed as to the nature of the law.
This Article does not prohibit the Town Board from publishing the local law in its entirety if it believes, in its absolute legislative discretion, that such publication is necessary or beneficial to the public.
The purpose of this article is to amend the requirements of the laws of New York State for publication of the full text of a Town ordinance to effectuate such ordinance.
This Article is enacted pursuant to the authority vested in the Town of Malta by the Town Law, the Municipal Home Rule Law, the Executive Law and other applicable laws of the State of New York.
Sections 133, 264 and 265 of the Town Law, which require publication of the full text of all ordinances adopted by a town, are hereby amended to the extent that they relate to any and all proceedings of the Town Board of the Town of Malta, Saratoga County, New York, to provide that any and all ordinances enacted pursuant to the provisions of said sections of the laws of the State of New York shall become effective by publication in the official Town newspaper of said Town of a summary describing the subject matter of such ordinance, together with a notice stating that the whole of such ordinance is on file with the Town Clerk of said Town during the period of such publication, in lieu of the publication of the entire text of such ordinance as heretofore required by said sections of the Town Law.