Bill Text: NY S07689 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Cayuga Heights; allows the village board of trustees of Cayuga Heights to appoint a person who resides in the county of Tompkins.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-13 - SIGNED CHAP.86 [S07689 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07689-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7689

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     October 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation
          to residency requirements for village justice of Cayuga Heights

          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 34 to read as follows:
     3    34.  Notwithstanding  any  provisions of this chapter or other general
     4  law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trustees
     5  of the incorporated village of Cayuga Heights, in the  county  of  Tomp-
     6  kins,  may,  by  resolution,  provide that the office of village justice
     7  and/or associate justice of such village may be held by a person who  is
     8  not a resident of such village, provided that such person resides within
     9  the county of Tompkins.
    10    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    11  subdivision 74 to read as follows:
    12    74. In the village of Cayuga Heights, in the county of  Tompkins,  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  and/or associate justice of the village of
    18  Cayuga Heights, provided that such person resides in the county of Tomp-
    19  kins.  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 law.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13293-01-3