[Adopted 3-11-2009 by L.L. No. 1-2009]
This article is enacted pursuant to the authority of Chapter 365 of the Laws of 1976 which added a new Subparagraph (3) to Paragraph d of Subdivision 1 of § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law authorizing towns to adopt a local law which may amend or supersede any provision of the Town Law in relation to the property, affairs or government of the Town or in relation to any of the other enumerated subject matters in such § 10, unless there is a state legislative restriction on such amendment or supersession.
In order to permit the Planning Board of the Town of Riga to transact business in the event where absence or conflicts of interest preclude a full membership of seven members from considering a particular matter, it is deemed advantageous by the Riga Town Board to enact a local law superseding Town Law § 261 to provide for the appointment of alternate members to the Planning Board
Section 271 of the Town Law is hereby amended and superseded in its application to the Town of Riga by adding a new Subparagraph 1A providing as follows:
| 1A. | The Town Board of the Town of Riga may, in any year it deems necessary, appoint temporary alternate members to the Planning Board to serve as provided in this section. The number of temporary members so appointed pursuant to this section in any year shall not exceed three. Such temporary members shall be appointed for one-year terms of office. The chairperson of the Planning Board shall assign such temporary members as necessary when absence of regular members of said Board or the conflict of interest of regular members of said Board would otherwise prevent seven members of said Board from considering any pending matter, but no more than two temporary members shall sit in determination of any pending matter. Such temporary members shall be designated on a rotating basis in the manner provided in the general governing rules of the Planning Board such that each temporary member shall be afforded an equal opportunity to serve. Once designated to serve on a particular matter before the Board, the temporary member shall have the same powers and duties as regular members of the Board until the matter is concluded. Any determination of said Board consisting of temporary members shall have the same weight and be entitled to the same authority as the act or deed of the regular Planning Board and all laws, statutes and regulations shall apply and be applied with equal force and effect. Such temporary members appointed pursuant to this section shall be paid for their respective services as fixed by resolution of the Town Board. |
