STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6357 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2019 ___________ 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 waiving the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city of Mechanic- ville, Saratoga 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 68 to read as follows: 3 68. 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 within the state of New York; 10 provided, however that any person performing such functions or holding 11 the office of the city attorney in any other city shall be a resident of 12 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. LBD08435-01-9