N.Y. Municipal Home Rule § 27: Filing and publication of local laws

§ 27. Filing and publication of local laws. 1. Within twenty days

after a local law shall finally have been adopted, the clerk, or other

officer designated by the legislative body, shall file one certified

copy thereof in the office of such clerk except that in the case of a

county it shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk and one

certified copy in the office of the secretary of state. In the case of a

local law subject to a referendum, however, such local law shall be

filed within twenty days after its approval by the electors, or where

the local law was subject to a permissive referendum and no petition was

filed requesting the referendum, the local law shall be filed within

twenty days after the time for filing of such petition shall have

expired.

2. Each such certified copy shall contain the text only of the local

law without the brackets and without the matter within the brackets, the

matter with a line run through it, or the italicizing or underscoring,

if any, to indicate the changes made by it, except that each such

certified copy of a local law enacted by a city with a population of one

million or more shall be printed in the same form as the official copy

of the proposed local law which became the local law provided that line

numbers, the printed number of the bill and explanatory matter shall be

omitted.

3. Notwithstanding the effective date of any local law, a local law

shall not become effective before it is filed in the office of the

secretary of state.

4. Subject to the provisions of subdivision three hereof, every local

law shall take effect on the twentieth day after it shall finally have

been adopted unless a different time shall be prescribed therein or

required by this chapter or other provision of law.

5. The secretary of state shall publish annually local laws on the

department of state website and in a separate volume as a supplement to

the session laws, and shall publish at least annually on the department

of state website a complete codification of all local laws in effect

that have been adopted by the legislative body of each county. The

clerk, or other officer designated by the legislative body of each

county, shall provide local laws to the secretary of state in a manner

specified by the secretary of state to facilitate the publication

requirements of this subdivision.

6. The clerk shall record all local laws filed in his office in a

separate book or books, which shall be indexed by him.

7. The secretary of state shall have the authority to provide for the

receipt and filing of local laws by electronic transmission.