Bill Text: NY A02575 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2575 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Expands the waiver of the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city of Mechanicville, Saratoga county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-11 - signed chap.116 [A02575 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02575-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2575

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2021
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  expanding  the
          waiver  of the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city
          of Mechanicville, Saratoga county

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 68 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
     2  added by chapter 461 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    [68.] 71. In the city of Mechanicville, in the county of Saratoga, the
     4  provisions of this section requiring a person to be a  resident  of  the
     5  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
     6  or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
     7  required  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
     8  office of city attorney of the city of Mechanicville, provided that such
     9  person resides in Saratoga county or  an  adjoining  county  within  the
    10  state  of  New  York;  provided, however that any person performing such
    11  functions or holding the office of the city attorney in any  other  city
    12  shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01276-01-1