File #: Int 0942-2009    Version: * Name: Prohibiting allowances in addition to salary for council members.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations
On agenda: 3/11/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York City charter in relation to prohibiting allowances in addition to salary for council members.
Sponsors: Tony Avella
Council Member Sponsors: 1

Int. No. 942

 

By Council Member Avella

 

A Local Law to amend the New York City charter in relation to prohibiting allowances in addition to salary for council members.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Subdivision b of section 26 of the New York City charter is amended to read as follows:

                     b. The salary of each council  member  shall  be  one  hundred  twelve  thousand  five  hundred  dollars a year. No allowances, including allowances for [In addition any council member,  while] serving as  a  committee  chairperson  or  other  officer  of  the  council,  may  [also]  be  paid,  in addition to such salary[, an allowance  fixed by resolution, after a hearing, for the particular and  additional  services pertaining to the additional duties of such position].

                     §2.  This local law shall take effect on the first day of January of the year immediately following its approval by vote of the electorate.

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