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❑County ❑City x Town ❑Village
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of Groton
Local Law No. 1
of the year 2020
A local law A Local Law Overriding the Tax Levy Limit Established in the New York General Municipal
(Insert Title)
Law §3-c in and for the Town of Groton
Be it enacted by the Town Board of the
(Name of Legislative Body)
❑County ❑City x❑Town ❑Village
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of Groton as follows:
SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT
It is the intent of this local law to override the limit on the amount of real property taxes that may be
levied by the Town of Groton, County of Tompkins pursuant to New York General Municipal Law §3-c,
and to allow the Town of Groton to adopt a Town budget for (a) Town purposes and (b) any other special
or improvement district governed by the Town Board for the Fiscal Year 2021, that requires a real
property tax levy in excess of the "tax levy limit" as defined by the General Municipal Law §3-c.
SECTION 2. AUTHORITY
This local law is adopted pursuant to Subdivision 5 of the New York General Municipal Law, §3-c, which
expressly authorizes the Town Board to override the tax levy limit by the adoption of a local law
approved by a vote of sixty percent (60%) of the Town Board
SECTION 3. TAX LEVY LIMIT OVERRIDE
The Town Board of the Town of Groton, County of Tompkins, is hereby authorized to adopt a budget for
the Fiscal Year 2021 that requires a real property tax levy in excess of the limit specified in the New York
General Municipal Law §3-c.
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SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article or part of this local law shall be adjudged by any court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder
thereof, but shall be confined in its operations to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, article, or part
thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Local Law shall take effect immediately upon filing with the Secretary of State.
CERTIFICATION
I, April L. Scheffler, RMC, Town Clerk of the Town of Groton, do hereby certify that the local law
annexed hereto, designated as Local Law No. 1 for the Year 2020 of the Town of Groton was duly passed
by the Town Board of the Town of Groton, New York on the 8th of September 2020 in accordance with
the applicable provisions of law.
I further certify that I have compared the preceding local law with the original on file in this office and
that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original local law, and was finally
adopted in the manner indicated in the paragraph above.
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April . Scheffflf er, RMC
Town Clerk of the Town of Groton
Date: q S,-p, '(-)t aU 2020
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STATE OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ONE COMMERCE PLAZA
99 WASHINGTON AVENUE
ALBANY, NY 12231-0001
WWW.DOS.NY.GOV
September 22, 2020
April L Scheffler
Town of Groton Clerk
101 Cougar Box 36
Groton NY 13073
ANDREW M. CUOMO
GOVERNOR
ROSSANA ROSADO
SECRETARY OF STATE
RE: Town of Groton, Local Laver 1 2020, filed on September 15 2020
Dear Sir/Madam:
The above referenced material was filed by this office as indicated. Additional
local law filing forms can be obtained from our website, www.dos.nv.aov.
Sincerely,
State Records and Law Bureau
(518) 473-2492
RECEIVED
OCT 0 5 2020
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