Bill Text: NY S07790 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to qualifications for holding the office of corporation counsel in the city of Amsterdam; provides that a person not living in the city of Amsterdam may hold the office of corporation counsel for such city provided he or she lives in Montgomery county or an adjoining county within the state of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - SIGNED CHAP.193 [S07790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07790-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7790

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 20, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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  qualifications
          for holding the office of corporation counsel in the city of Amsterdam

          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 70 to read as follows:
     3    70. In the city  of  Amsterdam,  in  the  county  of  Montgomery,  the
     4  provisions  of  this  section requiring a person to be a resident of the
     5  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
     6  or she 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  corporation  counsel in the city of Amsterdam, provided that
     9  such person resides in Montgomery county or an adjoining  county  within
    10  the state of New York; provided, however that any person performing such
    11  functions  or  holding such office in any other city shall be a resident
    12  of such city 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.
                                                                   LBD14861-01-0
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