Section 99-Z - Municipal officers or employees prohibited from displaying political advertisements on public property1. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Municipal officer or employee" shall have the same meaning as defined pursuant to section eight hundred of this chapter, except that it shall also include members of any volunteer fire department which is part of such municipality.(b) "Political advertisement" shall mean any poster, sign, flag, banner, picture, sticker, patch, bumper sticker, article of clothing, accessory or any other item meant to advertise or promote a certain individual for political office.2. A municipal officer or employee, whether paid or unpaid, shall be prohibited from displaying or causing to be displayed any political advertisement on or within any public building occupied in the discharge of official duties by an individual employed or holding office in the government of such municipality, or on any public flag pole, monument, sign or any other permanent structure that such municipal officer or employee interacts with as part of their official capacity, or on any uniform, accessory or other gear worn or used by a municipal officer or employee as part of their official capacity, as well as on or within any municipally owned vehicle, vehicle owned by a volunteer fire company, or any equipment owned by a municipality or fire department.3. This section shall not apply when such a political advertisement appears in a book, digital medium, museum, or otherwise serves an educational or historical purpose, or in instances where the certain individual who is the subject of such political advertisement is deceased.N.Y. Gen. Mun. Law § 99-Z
Added by New York Laws 2023, ch. 666,Sec. 1, eff. 11/17/2023.