Bill Text: NY A04855 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the residency requirements of certain public officers of political subdivisions or municipal corporations of the state; prohibits certain officers from being required to forego or make a payment or satisfy a levy due to him or her becoming a nonresident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A04855 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04855-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4855

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the  removal  of
          residency penalties related to employment by any political subdivision
          or municipal corporation of the state

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative finding and declaration. The legislature hereby
     2  finds and declares that there is a substantial  state  interest  in  the
     3  fair and equitable treatment of public officers throughout the state who
     4  are  permitted to reside in localities outside the political subdivision
     5  or municipal corporation of the state for which they work. That substan-
     6  tial state interest would be furthered by establishing that  any  public
     7  officer  who resides in a permitted locality shall not be subject to any
     8  levy or payment by residing in a permitted  locality.    Therefore,  the
     9  legislature  declares  the  necessity  for  the enactment of this act to
    10  establish that any public officer who is or becomes a nonresident  of  a
    11  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
    12  or  she  is  employed  shall  not  be obligated to forgo wages or make a
    13  payment because he or she is or becomes a nonresident by residing  in  a
    14  locality permitted by state or other applicable law.
    15    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    16  subdivision 73 to read as follows:
    17    73. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or of any  general,
    18  special  or  local  law,  charter,  code, ordinance, resolution, rule or
    19  regulation to the contrary, any person subject to the residency require-
    20  ments of this section who resides in a political subdivision or  munici-
    21  pal  corporation  permitted  by this section or any other applicable law
    22  shall not be obligated or required to  forgo  or  make  any  payment  or
    23  satisfy  any  levy pursuant to a condition of employment or an agreement

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  by such person if such person is or becomes a nonresident of  the  poli-
     2  tical subdivision or municipal corporation of the state.
     3    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective  immediately
     5  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
     6  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
     7  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.