Bill Text: NY A09785 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits residents of Orange county and adjoining counties to hold the position of assistant district attorney in Orange county.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - signed chap.275 [A09785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9785

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2022
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to qualification to
          hold the position of assistant district  attorney  in  the  county  of
          Orange

          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 72 to read as follows:
     3    72. In the county of Orange, the provisions of this section  requiring
     4  a  person  to  be  a  resident of the political subdivision or municipal
     5  corporation of the state for which he or she shall be chosen  or  within
     6  which  his or her official functions are required to be exercised, shall
     7  not prevent a person from  holding  the  office  of  assistant  district
     8  attorney  of  the county of Orange, provided that such person resides in
     9  Orange county or an adjoining county  within  the  state  of  New  York;
    10  provided,  however, that any person performing such functions or holding
    11  the office of assistant district attorney in any other county shall be a
    12  resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The provisions
    13  of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the office  of
    14  chief  assistant district attorney, the holder of which would assume the
    15  duties of the district attorney upon  the  district  attorney's  absence
    16  from the county or upon the district attorney's inability to perform his
    17  or her duties.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15172-01-2