DATED: 1987

SECTION 1. PURPOSES.
It is the intention of this Local Law to divide the
County of Montgomery into districts and to provide for the
election of one coroner in each district pursuant to the provisions
of County Law Article 8, Section 400, Subdivision 3, in
order to alleviate any problems which the coroners may have in
performing their duties throughout the entire area of the County
and thereby promoting the safety and welfare of the people of
the County of Montgomery.

SECTION 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF DISTRICTS.
The County of Montgomery shall be divided into three
districts, each of said districts to be bounded by the City
and/or Town lines of the municipalities included in each of said
districts, which said districts are established as follows:
District 1.
Town of Amsterdam, City of Amsterdam and Town of Florida.
District 2. Town of Mohawk, Town of Glen, Town of
Charleston and Town of Root.
District 3. Town of Palatine, Town of Canajoharie,
Town of Minden and Town of St. Johnsville.

SECTION 3. NUMBER OF CORONERS.
There shall be a total of three coroners elected in
the County of Montgomery, one coroner being elected within the
boundaries of each of said districts as established in Section
2 of this Local Law.

SECTION 4. WHEN ELECTED.
Each of the three coroners authorized under this Local
Law shall be elected at the general election to be held in the
year in which this Local Law becomes effective and shall take
office on the first day of January immediately following said
general election.

SECTION 5. PERFORMANCE OF OFFICIAL DUTIES.
Each coroner elected within the boundaries of a district
as provided by this Local Law shall be and hereby is authorized
and entitled to perform his or her official duties within the
boundaries of any other district hereinbefore described within
the corporate limits of the County of Montgomery.

SECTION 6. SAVING CLAUSE.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of
this Local Law shall be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment, decree or other shall
not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall
be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,
subdivision, section or part thereof directly involved in the
controversy in which such judgment, decree or order shall have
been rendered and the remainder of this Local Law shall not be
affected thereby and shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 7. This Local Law shall take effect on January 1, 1989.

SECTION 8. This Local Law is subject to a permissive
referendum, and will be submitted to a vote of qualified electors
of the County of Montgomery, if, within45 days after the date
on which it was so adopted, there is filed with the Clerk of
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors a petition protesting
against this Local Law, Signed and authenticated as required by
Section 24 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, by qualified electors
of Montgomery County registered to vote therein at the last
preceding general election, in number equal to at least ten per
centum of the total number of votes cast for Governor at the
last gubernatorial election held in said County.