Bill Text: NY S07417 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city of Johnstown, Fulton county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.320 [S07417 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07417-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7417 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE October 4, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city of Johnstown, Fulton county 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 city of Johnstown, in the county of Fulton, the provisions 4 of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political 5 subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or she 6 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 city attorney of the city of Johnstown, provided that such 9 person resides in Fulton county or an adjoining county within the 10 state of New York; provided, however that any person performing such 11 functions or holding the office of the city attorney in any other city 12 shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13320-01-1
