Bill Text: NY A05742 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for the commissioner of planning, development, and public transportation for Putnam county, provided that such person resides in Putnam county or an adjoining county within the state of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.392 [A05742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05742-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5742--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law,  in  relation  to  waiving  the
          residency  requirement  for the commissioner of planning, development,
          and public transportation for Putnam 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 73 to read as follows:
     3    73.  In the county of Putnam, 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 he or she shall be chosen or within
     6  which his or her official functions are required to be exercised,  shall
     7  not  prevent  a  person from holding the office of commissioner of plan-
     8  ning, development, and public transportation of the  county  of  Putnam,
     9  provided that such person resides in Putnam county or an adjoining coun-
    10  ty  within  the  state  of  New  York; provided, however that any person
    11  performing such functions or holding the office of commissioner of plan-
    12  ning, development, and public transportation in any other  county  shall
    13  be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10230-02-3