Bill Text: NY A08962 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the residency of the town of Wallkill comptroller; provides that such individual need not be an elector of such town.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-07 - signed chap.211 [A08962 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08962-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8962
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 4, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- 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
         the residency of the Wallkill comptroller
         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 28 to read as follows:
    3    28. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, IN  THE  TOWN  OF
    4  WALLKILL,  ORANGE  COUNTY,  THE  PERSON PERFORMING THE FUNCTION OF COMP-
    5  TROLLER NEED NOT BE AN ELECTOR OF  SUCH  TOWN.  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THE
    6  PERSON  PERFORMING  THE FUNCTIONS OF COMPTROLLER IN ANY OTHER TOWN SHALL
    7  BE AN ELECTOR OF SUCH TOWN, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY AN ACT  OF  THE
    8  STATE LEGISLATURE.
    9    S  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
   10  subdivision 62 to read as follows:
   11    62. IN THE TOWN OF WALLKILL, IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE,  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  HE  OR  SHE
   14  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 COMPTROLLER OF THE TOWN OF WALLKILL, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON
   17  RESIDES  IN THE COUNTY OF ORANGE OR AN ADJOINING COUNTY WITHIN THE STATE
   18  OF NEW YORK. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PERSONS PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS  OF
   19  COMPTROLLER  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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