S 3936: Prohibits the name of municipalities and subdivisions thereof to include the word swastika.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3936 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to limiting the naming of municipalities and subdivisions thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 73-a to read as follows: 3 § 73-a. Naming of municipalities; limitations. No municipal corpo- 4 ration, or any subdivision thereof, shall have a name containing the 5 word swastika and any municipal corporation, or any subdivision thereof, 6 which has a name containing the word swastika in it shall, by an act of 7 its governing body, change such name as to remove the word swastika. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00552-01-5