BILL NUMBER: S8145
SPONSOR: HOYLMAN-SIGAL
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the naming
of state buildings after public officers
 
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure public facilities in the state are
not named after public officers convicted of felonies.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 creates a new article 50 of the executive law governing the
naming of public facilities. It specifically provides that buildings or
real property owned by the states or its municipal subdivisions shall
not be named after public officers during the period they are public
officers, or after public officers convicted of a felony.
Section 2 states that this act shall take effect immediately.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Our public facilities should not be named after public officials who
committed felonies. This bill, modeled off of existing New Mexico law,
will ensure that New York's cherished public buildings, parks and other
facilities will not be named for public officers who violated the public
trust and who were convicted of felonies.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.