Bill Text: NY A05670 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the town justice of the town of Peircefield, in the county of St. Lawrence, need not be a resident of such town; must be a resident of the county of St. Lawrence or an adjoining county within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-01 - substituted by s3933 [A05670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05670-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5670
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 5, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. DUPREY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Local Governments
       AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
         authorizing town justices in the town of Piercefield, in the county of
         St. Lawrence, to reside outside 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 26 to read as follows:
    3    26. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
    4  IN  THE  TOWN OF PIERCEFIELD, IN THE COUNTY OF ST. LAWRENCE, THE PERSONS
    5  PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF TOWN JUSTICE NEED NOT BE  ELECTORS  OF  SUCH
    6  TOWN.  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THE PERSONS PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF TOWN
    7  JUSTICE IN ANY OTHER TOWN SHALL BE ELECTORS OF SUCH TOWN  UNLESS  OTHER-
    8  WISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
    9    S  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
   10  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
   11    60. IN THE TOWN OF PIERCEFIELD, IN THE COUNTY  OF  ST.  LAWRENCE,  THE
   12  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SECTION REQUIRING A PERSON TO BE A RESIDENT OF THE
   13  POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE FOR WHICH HE
   14  OR SHE SHALL BE CHOSEN OR WITHIN WHICH HIS OR HER 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 PIERCEFIELD, PROVIDED THAT SUCH
   17  PERSON RESIDES IN ST. LAWRENCE OR AN ADJOINING COUNTY WITHIN  THE  STATE
   18  OF  NEW  YORK. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PERSON PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF
   19  TOWN JUSTICE IN ANY OTHER TOWN SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF SUCH TOWN,  UNLESS
   20  OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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