Bill Text: NY S09265 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for certain county attorney positions within Greene county including assistant public defender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-28 - SIGNED CHAP.282 [S09265 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09265-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9265

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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  waiving  the
          residency  requirement  for  certain  county attorney positions within
          Greene 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 75 to read as follows:
     3    75.  In the county of Greene, the provisions of this section requiring
     4  a person to be a resident of  the  political  subdivision  or  municipal
     5  corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen or within
     6  which  their  official functions are required to be exercised, shall not
     7  prevent a person from holding the office of assistant public defender of
     8  the county of Greene, provided that such  person  resides  in  a  county
     9  adjoining  Greene county within the state of New York; provided, however
    10  that any person performing such functions or holding such offices in any
    11  other county shall  be  a  resident  of  such  county  unless  otherwise
    12  provided  by law.  The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to
    13  any person holding the office of first assistant  public  defender,  the
    14  holder  of which would assume the duties of the public defender upon the
    15  public defender's absence from the county or upon the public  defender's
    16  inability to perform their duties.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15188-01-4