Bill Text: NY A10400 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the residency requirements for village justice of Chestnut Ridge; requires such person to be a resident of Rockland county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - substituted by s9374 [A10400 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10400-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10400--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lawler) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the  Commit-
          tee  on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the village law, in relation
          to residency requirements for village justice of Chestnut Ridge

          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 village of Chestnut Ridge, in the county of Rockland, 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 village justice of the village  of  Chestnut  Ridge,  provided
     9  that  such person resides in the county of Rockland.  Provided, however,
    10  the person performing the functions of  village  justice  in  any  other
    11  village shall be a resident of such village unless otherwise provided by
    12  law.
    13    §  2.  Section  3-300  of  the  village law is amended by adding a new
    14  subdivision 32 to read as follows:
    15    32. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
    16  al law, local law, ordinance or special act, the village board of  trus-
    17  tees  of  the  incorporated  village of Chestnut Ridge, Rockland county,
    18  may, by resolution, provide that the village justice of the  village  of
    19  Chestnut  Ridge,  Rockland  county, may be held by a person who is not a
    20  resident of such village, provided that such person resides within Rock-
    21  land county.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15727-04-2