Bill Text: NY A09360 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows the Seneca county attorney to reside in a county in New York adjoining Seneca county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-28 - signed chap.244 [A09360 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09360-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9360

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public officers law, in relation to allowing the
          Seneca county attorney to reside in a county adjoining Seneca 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 74 to read as follows:
     3    74.  In the county of Seneca, 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 regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or
     8  counselor in the courts of record of this state from holding the  office
     9  of  Seneca  county  attorney,  provided  that such person resides in the
    10  county of Seneca, or an adjoining county within the state of  New  York.
    11  Provided,  however, the person performing the functions of county attor-
    12  ney in any other county shall be  a  resident  of  such  county,  unless
    13  otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14354-01-4
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