Bill Text: NY A05697 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for the town justice in the town of Boylston, in Oswego county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-12 - substituted by s4076 [A05697 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05697-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5697
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
          waiving the residency requirement for the town justice in the town  of
          Boylston, in Oswego county
          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 31 to read as follows:
     3    31.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  one of this section, in the town of
     4  Boylston, Oswego county, the person  performing  the  function  of  town
     5  justice  need  not  be  an elector of such town.  Provided, however, the
     6  person performing the function of town justice in any other  town  shall
     7  be  an  elector of such town, unless otherwise provided by an act of the
     8  state legislature.
     9    § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
    10  subdivision 66 to read as follows:
    11    66.  In  the  town  of Boylston, Oswego county, the provisions of this
    12  section requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision
    13  or municipal corporation of the state for  which  he  or  she  shall  be
    14  chosen,  or  within which his or her official function is required to be
    15  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the  office  of  town
    16  justice  of the town of Boylston; provided that said person resides in a
    17  town which adjoins such town and which  is  in  the  county  of  Oswego.
    18  Provided,  however,  the person performing the functions of town justice
    19  in any other town shall be a resident of  such  town,  unless  otherwise
    20  provided by law.
    21    § 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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