Bill Text: NY A01514 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Allegany, to be a nonresident of such town.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - REFERRED TO RULES [A01514 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01514-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1514--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments -- committee discharged, bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
          authorizing  the town justice of the town of Rushford, county of Alle-
          gany, to be a nonresident of such town

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  23  of  the  town law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
     4  in the town of Rushford, in the county of Allegany, the person  perform-
     5  ing  the  function of town justice, need not be an elector of such town.
     6  Provided, however, the person performing the function of town justice in
     7  any other town shall be  an  elector  of  such  town,  unless  otherwise
     8  provided by an act of the state legislature.
     9    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 75 to read as follows:
    11    75. In the town of Rushford, in the county of Allegany, the provisions
    12  of this section requiring a person to be a  resident  of  the  political
    13  subdivision  or municipal corporation of the state for which such person
    14  shall be chosen or within which such  person's  official  functions  are
    15  required  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
    16  office of town justice of the  town  of  Rushford;  provided  that  such
    17  person  resides  in a town which is in the county of Allegany. Provided,
    18  however, the person performing the function of town justice in any other
    19  town shall be a resident of such town, unless otherwise provided by law.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03997-02-4