Bill Text: NY A09828 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for the comptroller and building inspector in the town of Chester, county of Orange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09828-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9828

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 11, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
          waiving the residency requirement for  the  comptroller  and  building
          inspector in the town of Chester, 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 23 of the town law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
     4  in  the  town of Chester, Orange county, the person performing the func-
     5  tion of comptroller or building inspector need not be an elector of such
     6  town, provided that such person resides in the county in which such town
     7  is located. Provided, however, the person  performing  the  function  of
     8  comptroller  or building inspector in any other town shall be an elector
     9  of such town, unless otherwise provided by an act of the state  legisla-
    10  ture.
    11    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    12  subdivision 75 to read as follows:
    13    75. In the town of Chester, in the county of Orange, the provisions of
    14  this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
    15  vision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall
    16  be chosen or within which such persons official functions  are  required
    17  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the office of
    18  comptroller or building inspector of the town of Chester  provided  that
    19  such  person resides in Orange county; provided, however that any person
    20  performing such functions or holding the office of comptroller or build-
    21  ing inspector in any other town shall  be  a  resident  of  such  county
    22  unless otherwise provided by law.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14861-02-4