Bill Text: NY A06102 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to removing the residency requirement to hold the position of assistant district attorney in the county of Rensselaer, provided that such assistant district attorney resides in an adjoining county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.399 [A06102 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06102-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6102

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the qualifica-
          tion to hold the position of assistant district attorney in the county
          of Rensselaer

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 73 to read as follows:
     3    73.  In  the  county  of  Rensselaer,  the  provisions of this section
     4  requiring a person to be a resident  of  the  political  subdivision  or
     5  municipal  corporation  of the state for which he or she shall be chosen
     6  or within which his or her official functions are required to  be  exer-
     7  cised,  shall  not prevent a person from holding the office of assistant
     8  district attorney of the county of Rensselaer, provided that such person
     9  resides in Rensselaer county or an adjoining county within the state  of
    10  New  York;  provided, however, that any person performing such functions
    11  or holding the office of assistant district attorney in any other county
    12  shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The
    13  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the
    14  office of chief assistant district attorney, the holder of  which  would
    15  assume  the duties of the district attorney upon the district attorney's
    16  absence from the county or upon the  district  attorney's  inability  to
    17  perform his or her duties.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10444-01-3