Bill Text: NY A08488 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Village of Mannsville to hire a village clerk who is not a resident of such village.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-21 - signed chap.226 [A08488 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08488-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8488
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation
          to authorizing the village of Mannsville to hire a village  clerk  who
          is not a resident of such village
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3-300 of the village law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 27 to read as follows:
     3    27. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
     4  al law, local law, ordinance or special act, the village board of  trus-
     5  tees  of  the incorporated village of Mannsville, Jefferson county, may,
     6  by resolution, provide that the village clerk of the village  of  Manns-
     7  ville,  Jefferson  county,  need  not be a resident of said village, but
     8  must be a resident of the county in which such village is located or  an
     9  adjoining county within the state of New York.
    10    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    11  section 66 to read as follows:
    12    66. In the village of Mannsville, in  the  county  of  Jefferson,  the
    13  provisions  of  this  section requiring a person to be a resident of the
    14  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
    15  or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
    16  required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person  from  holding  the
    17  office of village clerk of the village of Mannsville, provided that such
    18  person  resides  in  the  county  in which such village is located or an
    19  adjoining county within the state of New York.   Provided, however,  the
    20  person  performing  the  functions of village clerk in any other village
    21  shall be a resident of such village, unless otherwise provided by an act
    22  of the state legislature.
    23    § 3. 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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