Bill Text: NY A07070 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.220 [A07070 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07070-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7070--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE, DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2-a. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, 5 special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or 6 regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi- 7 vision or municipal corporation of the state for which he shall be 8 chosen or within which his official functions are required to be exer- 9 cised, shall apply to the appointment of a member of the department of 10 sanitation of any municipality of the state who resides in a county 11 within the state contiguous to such municipality. A member of the 12 department of sanitation of any political subdivision or municipal 13 corporation who has five or more years of service or in the case of a 14 member of the department of sanitation in a city with a population of 15 one million or more who has two or more years of service to such city 16 may reside (a) in a county in which such political subdivision or munic- 17 ipal corporation is located; or (b) in a county within the state contig- 18 uous to the county in which such political subdivision or municipal 19 corporation is located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous 20 to such political subdivision or municipal corporation; or (d) in a 21 county within the state which is not more than fifteen miles from such 22 political subdivision or municipal corporation. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10829-06-8A. 7070--A 2 1 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 30 of the public officers law, as sepa- 2 rately amended by chapters 200 and 209 of the laws of 2006, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 5. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special 5 or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, 6 creating a vacancy in a local office of a political subdivision or 7 municipal corporation if the incumbent thereof ceases to be a resident 8 of such political subdivision or municipal corporation, shall apply in 9 the case of a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid fire depart- 10 ment, who, for purposes of this section shall include persons employed 11 as fire alarm dispatchers, or in the case of a person employed in a 12 department of correction in the correction service of the classified 13 civil service, or in the case of a member of the department of sanita- 14 tion of any political subdivision or municipal corporation who has five 15 or more years of service, or in the case of officers and inspectors 16 employed in a department of health of a city of over one million popu- 17 lation, or in the case of a member of the department of sanitation in a 18 city with a population of one million or more who has two or more years 19 of service to such city who resides (a) in the county in which said city 20 is located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county 21 in which said city is located; or (c) in a county within the state 22 contiguous to such city; or (d) in a county within the state which is 23 not more than fifteen miles from said city; or (e) in a county within 24 the state contiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the 25 former is less than thirty miles from such political subdivision or 26 municipal corporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary 27 lines. 28 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.