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9-902 – Referendum on Petition; Registration List of Electors.

§ 9-902 Referendum on petition; registration list of electors. 1. An act or resolution of the board of trustees as described in the preceding section shall not take effect until thirty days after its adoption; nor until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such village voting on such […]

9-904 – Proposition for the Submission of Acts or Resolutions.

§ 9-904 Proposition for the submission of acts or resolutions. A proposition submitting an act or resolution of the board of trustees to the approval of the electors pursuant to this chapter shall contain an abstract of such act or resolution concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof. The village clerk shall prepare such abstract […]

9-906 – Reconsideration of Act or Resolution Upon Submission to Referendum.

§ 9-906 Reconsideration of act or resolution upon submission to referendum. At any time after the adoption of an act or resolution and not later than fifteen days prior to the election, the board of trustees of the village may reconsider its action thereon and if upon such reconsideration the said act or resolution is […]

9-910 – Referendum for Adoption of Local Law at Village Elections.

§ 9-910 Referendum for adoption of local law at village elections. 1. Whenever, pursuant to law, public sports, exercises or shows are permitted on the first day of the week after five minutes past one o’clock in the afternoon upon the adoption of a local law by the board of trustees of a village and […]

9-912 – Propositions–Submission and Special Election.

§ 9-912 Propositions–submission and special election. 1. The board of trustees may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon the petition of at least two hundred electors in villages containing a population of five thousand or more; by at least one hundred fifty electors in villages containing a population of at least three thousand and […]

9-914 – Resubmission of Defeated Propositions.

§ 9-914 Resubmission of defeated propositions. A proposition submitted in pursuance of section 9-912 of this article or of section 9-900 of this article and which has been defeated, or in the case of a permissive referendum in which the action of the board of trustees has been disapproved by a role of the electors, […]

9-916 – Inconsistent Local Laws.

§ 9-916 Inconsistent local laws. No local law shall be adopted changing, amending or superseding any of the provisions of this article.