Bill Text: NY S06668 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-25 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06668-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6668
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 25, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
         ment Operations
       AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  residency
         requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3 of the public officers law, as
    2  amended by chapter 200 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    2-a.  Neither  the  provisions  of  this  section, nor of any general,
    5  special or local law, charter,  code,  ordinance,  resolution,  rule  or
    6  regulation,  requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
    7  vision or municipal corporation of the  state  for  which  he  shall  be
    8  chosen  or  within which his official functions are required to be exer-
    9  cised, shall apply to the appointment of a member of the  department  of
   10  sanitation  of  any  municipality  of  the state who resides in a county
   11  within the state contiguous  to  such  municipality.  A  member  of  the
   12  department  of  sanitation  of  any  political  subdivision or municipal
   13  corporation [who has five or more years of service] may reside (a) in  a
   14  county  in  which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is
   15  located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county in
   16  which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or
   17  (c) in a county within the state contiguous to such  political  subdivi-
   18  sion or municipal corporation; or (d) in a county within the state which
   19  is not more than fifteen miles from such political subdivision or munic-
   20  ipal corporation.
   21    S  2. Subdivision 5 of section 30 of the public officers law, as sepa-
   22  rately amended by chapters 200 and 209 of the laws of 2006,  is  amended
   23  to read as follows:
   24    5. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special
   25  or  local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
   26  creating a vacancy in a local  office  of  a  political  subdivision  or
   27  municipal  corporation  if the incumbent thereof ceases to be a resident
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 6668                             2
    1  of such political subdivision or municipal corporation, shall  apply  in
    2  the  case of a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid fire depart-
    3  ment, who, for purposes of this section shall include  persons  employed
    4  as  fire  alarm  dispatchers,  or  in the case of a person employed in a
    5  department of correction in the correction  service  of  the  classified
    6  civil  service,  or in the case of a member of the department of sanita-
    7  tion of any political subdivision or municipal corporation [who has five
    8  or more years of service,] or in the case  of  officers  and  inspectors
    9  employed  in  a department of health of a city of over one million popu-
   10  lation who resides (a) in the county in which said city is  located;  or
   11  (b)  in a county within the state contiguous to the county in which said
   12  city is located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous to  such
   13  city; or (d) in a county within the state which is not more than fifteen
   14  miles  from said city; or (e) in a county within the state contiguous to
   15  a county described in item (d) hereof where  the  former  is  less  than
   16  thirty  miles  from such political subdivision or municipal corporation,
   17  measured from their respective nearest boundary lines.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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