STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4901 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation to permitting village justices of the village of Maybrook to live in the towns of Montgomery or Hamptonburgh The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3-300 of the village law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 33 to read as follows: 3 33. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener- 4 al law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trus- 5 tees of the incorporated village of Maybrook, Orange county, may, by 6 resolution, provide that the office of village justice of such village 7 may be held by a person who is not a resident of such village, provided 8 that such person resides within either the town of Montgomery or the 9 town of Hamptonburgh within Orange county. 10 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new 11 subdivision 73 to read as follows: 12 73. In the village of Maybrook, in the county of Orange, the 13 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the 14 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he 15 or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are 16 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the 17 office of village justice of the village of Maybrook, provided that such 18 person resides in the town of Montgomery or the town of Hamptonburgh. 19 Provided, however, the person performing the functions of village 20 justice in any other village shall be a resident of such village unless 21 otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07836-01-3