Bill Text: NY S04817 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town justice of the town of Lewis in Lewis County to be a nonresident of the town of Lewis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-09-25 - SIGNED CHAP.312 [S04817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04817-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4817--B
           Cal. No. 1239
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
         committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
         recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-
         tee,  ordered  to  first report, amended on first report, ordered to a
         second report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the  order
         of second report
       AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
         authorizing  the  town justice of the town of Lewis in Lewis County to
         be a nonresident of the town of Lewis under certain circumstances
         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 29 to read as follows:
    3    29. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
    4  IN THE TOWN OF LEWIS, LEWIS COUNTY, THE PERSON PERFORMING  THE  FUNCTION
    5  OF  TOWN JUSTICE, NEED NOT BE AN ELECTOR OF SUCH TOWN.  PROVIDED, HOWEV-
    6  ER, THE PERSON PERFORMING THE FUNCTION OF TOWN JUSTICE IN ANY OTHER TOWN
    7  SHALL BE AN ELECTOR OF SUCH TOWN, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY AN ACT OF
    8  THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
    9    S 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
   10  subdivision 64 to read as follows:
   11    64. IN THE TOWN OF LEWIS, LEWIS COUNTY, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
   12  REQUIRING  A  PERSON  TO  BE  A RESIDENT OF THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR
   13  MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE FOR WHICH HE OR SHE SHALL  BE  CHOSEN
   14  OR  WITHIN  WHICH HIS OR HER OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS ARE REQUIRED TO BE EXER-
   15  CISED, SHALL NOT PREVENT A  PERSON  FROM  HOLDING  THE  OFFICE  OF  TOWN
   16  JUSTICE  OF  THE  TOWN  OF LEWIS; PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON RESIDES IN A
   17  TOWN WHICH ADJOINS SUCH TOWN AND  WHICH  IS  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  LEWIS.
   18  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PERSON PERFORMING THE FUNCTION OF TOWN JUSTICE IN
   19  ANY  OTHER  TOWN  SHALL  BE  A  RESIDENT  OF SUCH TOWN, UNLESS OTHERWISE
   20  PROVIDED BY LAW.
   21    S 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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