Bill Text: NY S03115 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3115 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits a person performing the functions of assistant district attorney or senior assistant district attorney in Cayuga county to be a resident of either Cayuga county or an adjoining county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-08 - SIGNED CHAP.464 [S03115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03115-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3115
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. HELMING, ANTONACCI -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Investi-
          gations and Government Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the qualifica-
          tions for holding the office of assistant district attorney or  senior
          district attorney in the county of Cayuga
          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 68 to read as follows:
     3    68. In the county of Cayuga, 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  or senior assistant district attorney of the county of Cayuga,
     9  provided that such person resides in Cayuga county or an adjoining coun-
    10  ty within the state of New York;  provided,  however,  that  any  person
    11  performing  such  functions  or holding the office of assistant district
    12  attorney in any other county shall be a resident of such  county  unless
    13  otherwise provided by law.  The provisions of this subdivision shall not
    14  apply  to  any  person  holding  the  office of chief assistant district
    15  attorney, the holder of which would assume the duties  of  the  district
    16  attorney  upon  the  district attorney's absence from the county or upon
    17  the district attorney's inability to perform his 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.
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