Bill Text: NY A09706 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for assistant district attorneys in Schenectady county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-28 - signed chap.249 [A09706 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09706-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9706

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  the  residency
          requirement for assistant district attorneys in Schenectady 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 75 to read as follows:
     3    75. In the county of  Schenectady,  the  provisions  of  this  section
     4  requiring  a  person  to  be  a resident of the political subdivision or
     5  municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall be chosen
     6  or within which such person's official  functions  are  required  to  be
     7  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the office of assist-
     8  ant  district attorney of the county of Schenectady, provided, that such
     9  person resides in Schenectady county or an adjoining county  within  the
    10  state  of  New  York; provided, however, that any person performing such
    11  functions or holding the office of assistant district  attorney  in  any
    12  other  county  shall  be  a  resident  of  such  county unless otherwise
    13  provided by law. The provisions of this subdivision shall not  apply  to
    14  any  person holding the office of chief assistant district attorney, the
    15  holder of which would assume the duties of the  district  attorney  upon
    16  the  district  attorney's  absence  from the county or upon the district
    17  attorney's inability to perform such district attorney's duties.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15084-01-4