Bill Text: NY A04483 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain members of the city of Syracuse police force to be residents of such city.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A04483 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04483-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4483

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers  law, in relation to requiring
          certain members of the city of Syracuse police force to  be  residents
          of such city

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3 of the public officers  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  1004  of  the  laws of 1966, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Neither the provisions of this section or of any  general,  special
     5  or  local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
     6  requiring a person to be a resident  of  the  political  subdivision  or
     7  municipal  corporation  of the state for which he or she shall be chosen
     8  or within which his or her official functions are required to  be  exer-
     9  cised,  shall  apply  to  the appointment of a person as a member of the
    10  police force of any political subdivision or  municipal  corporation  of
    11  the  state  if such person resides (a) in the county in which such poli-
    12  tical subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or (b) in a coun-
    13  ty within the state contiguous to the county  in  which  such  political
    14  subdivision  or  municipal  corporation  is  located; or (c) in a county
    15  within the state contiguous to such political subdivision  or  municipal
    16  corporation;  or (d) in a county within the state contiguous to a county
    17  described in item (c) hereof where the former is less than fifteen miles
    18  from such political subdivision or municipal corporation, measured  from
    19  their  respective  nearest boundary lines; or (e) in a county within the
    20  state contiguous to a county described in  item  (d)  hereof  where  the
    21  former  is  less  than  thirty  miles from such political subdivision or
    22  municipal corporation, measured from their respective  nearest  boundary
    23  lines.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 4483                             2

     1    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 71 to read as follows:
     3    71. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
     4  or  any  provision  of any general, special or local law, charter, code,
     5  ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation  to  the  contrary,  a  person
     6  entering city service as a police officer for the city of Syracuse on or
     7  after the effective date of this subdivision shall be a resident of such
     8  city.  The  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any person
     9  who entered city service as a police officer for the  city  of  Syracuse
    10  prior to the effective date of this subdivision.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.