Bill Text: NY A07046 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to qualifications for holding the offices of city controller and city engineer in the city of Amsterdam; provides that a person not living in the city of Amsterdam may hold the office of city controller or city engineer for such city provided he or she lives in Montgomery county or an adjoining county within the state of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.412 [A07046 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07046-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7046

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  qualifications
          for  holding  the  offices of city controller and city engineer in the
          city of Amsterdam

          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 73 to read as follows:
     3    73.  In  the  city  of  Amsterdam,  in  the  county of Montgomery, 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 controller or city engineer in  the  city  of  Amsterdam,
     9  provided  that  such person resides in Montgomery county or an adjoining
    10  county within the state of New York; provided, however that  any  person
    11  performing such functions or holding such office in any other city shall
    12  be a resident of such city 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.
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