Bill Text: NY A06812 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for certain county attorney positions within Essex county including assistant public defender.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - reported referred to ways and means [A06812 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06812-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6812--C 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- ordered to a third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accord- ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reference changed to the Commit- tee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the residency requirement for certain county attorney positions within Essex county 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 75 to read as follows: 3 75. In the county of Essex, the provisions of this section requiring a 4 person to be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corpo- 5 ration of the state for which such person shall be chosen or within 6 which such person's official functions are required to be exercised, 7 shall not prevent a person from holding the office of assistant public 8 defender of the county of Essex, provided that such person resides in a 9 county adjoining Essex county within the state of New York; provided, 10 however that any person performing such functions or holding such 11 offices in any other county shall be a resident of such county unless 12 otherwise provided by law. The provisions of this subdivision shall not 13 apply to any person holding the office of first assistant public defen- 14 der, the holder of which would assume the duties of the public defender 15 upon the public defender's absence from the county or upon the public 16 defender's inability to perform such office's duties. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10133-06-4
