Bill Text: NY S07434 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 7434

Bill Title: Authorizes the village clerk/treasurer and the deputy clerk for the village of Cold Spring, Putnam county, to reside outside such village, but within the county in which such village is located or an adjoining county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7478A [S07434 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07434-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7434--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the village law, in relation
          to  residency  requirements  for  the  village clerk/treasurer and the
          deputy clerk for the village of Cold Spring

          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 73 to read as follows:
     3    73. In the village of Cold Spring, in Putnam county, the provisions of
     4  this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
     5  vision  or  municipal corporation of the state for which he or she shall
     6  be chosen or within which his or her official functions are required  to
     7  be  exercised,  shall  not  prevent  a person from holding the office of
     8  village clerk/treasurer and the deputy clerk  of  the  village  of  Cold
     9  Spring,  provided  that  such person resides in the county in which such
    10  village is located or an adjoining county within the state of New  York.
    11  Provided,  however,  the  person  performing  the  functions  of village
    12  clerk/treasurer and the deputy clerk in any other  village  shall  be  a
    13  resident  of  such  village,  unless otherwise provided by an act of the
    14  state legislature.
    15    § 2. Section 3-300 of the village law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    16  subdivision 33 to read as follows:
    17    33. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
    18  al law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trus-
    19  tees  of the incorporated village of Cold Spring, county of Putnam, may,
    20  by resolution, provide that the village clerk/treasurer and  the  deputy
    21  clerk  of  the  village of Cold Spring, Putnam county, need not be resi-
    22  dents of such village, but shall be residents in  the  county  in  which

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11637-05-3

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     1  such  village  is located or an adjoining county within the state of New
     2  York.  Provided, however, the person performing the functions of village
     3  clerk/treasurer in any  other  village  shall  be  a  resident  of  such
     4  village, unless otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.