2023 New York Laws › MHR - Municipal Home Rule › Article 3 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws; Referenda; Filing and Publication › 20 - Procedure for Adoption of Local Laws by Legislative Body.

§ 20. Procedure for adoption of local laws by legislative body.  1. No
  local  law  shall  be passed except by at least the majority affirmative
  vote of the total voting power of the legislative body.   On  the  final
  passage of a local law the question shall be taken by ayes and noes, and
  the names of the members present and their votes shall be entered in the
  record, journal or minutes of proceedings.
2.  The  style of local law shall be "Be it enacted by the (naming the
  legislative body) of the (name of local government) as follows:"
3. Every such local law shall embrace  only  one  subject.  The  title
  shall briefly refer to the subject matter. For purposes of this chapter,
  a  local law relating to codification or recodification of ordinances or
  local laws into a municipal code shall be deemed  to  embrace  only  one
  subject.  As  used  herein  codification or recodification shall include
  amendments, deletions, repeals, alterations or  new  provisions  in  the
  municipal  code;  provided,  however,  that the notice of public hearing
  required by this section shall  briefly  describe  the  codification  or
  recodification.
4.  A  proposed  local  law  may be introduced only by a member of the
  legislative body at a meeting of  such  body  or  as  may  be  otherwise
  prescribed by the rules of procedure adopted by the legislative body. No
  such  local  law  shall  be passed until it shall have been in its final
  form and either (a) upon the desks or tables of  the  members  at  least
  seven calendar days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to its final passage, or
  (b)  mailed  to each of them in postpaid properly addressed and securely
  closed envelopes or wrappers in a post box or post office of the  United
  States  post  office department within the local government at least ten
  calendar days, exclusive of Sunday, prior to its final passage,  or  (c)
  e-mailed  to  the e-mail in-box of each of them in the Portable Document
  Format (PDF) at least ten calendar days, exclusive of Sunday,  prior  to
  its final passage, provided that (i) the local government has documented
  that each member of the legislative body has an e-mail address, (ii) the
  local government has published such e-mail address on the bulletin board
  of  the  local  government  clerk,  and  (iii)  the legislative body has
  unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing such  electronic  delivery;
  unless  the  elective or appointive chief executive officer, if there be
  one, or otherwise the chairman of the board of supervisors, in the  case
  of  a  county,  the  mayor  in  the  case  of  a  city or village or the
  supervisor in the case  of  a  town  shall  have  certified  as  to  the
  necessity  for its immediate passage and such local law be passed by the
  affirmative vote  of  two-thirds  of  the  total  voting  power  of  the
  legislative body.
For purposes of this subdivision, a proposed local law shall be deemed
  to  be  upon the desks or tables of the members if: it is set forth in a
  legible electronic format by electronic means, and it is  available  for
  review  in such format at the desks of the members. For purposes of this
  subdivision "electronic means"  means  any  method  of  transmission  of
  information between computers or other machines designed for the purpose
  of  sending  and  receiving  such  transmissions  and  which: allows the
  recipient to reproduce the information transmitted in a tangible  medium
  of expression; and does not permit additions, deletions or other changes
  to be made without leaving an adequate record thereof.
5.  In  the case of a local government which does not have an elective
  chief executive officer as defined by subdivision four of section two of
  this chapter, no local law shall be passed by the legislative body until
  a public hearing thereon has been had before  such  body  and  in  every
  other  local  government  no  such  local  law  shall be approved by the
  elective chief executive officer until a public hearing thereon has been
  had before him. Such a public hearing held before the  legislative  body

  or  before  the chief executive officer, as the case may be, pursuant to
  this subdivision shall be on such public notice of at least  three  days
  as  has  been  or  hereafter may be prescribed by a local law on which a
  hearing  shall  have  been  held as prescribed by this section upon five
  days' notice or, in the event such a local law prescribing the length of
  notice is not adopted, upon five days' notice. Where the public  hearing
  is  before  such  officer,  such notice shall be given by him within ten
  days after the local law shall  have  been  presented  to  him  and  the
  hearing shall be held within twenty days after such presentation.