Bill Text: NY A10341 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Waives the residency requirement for the commissioner of health and public health director for Putnam county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10341 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10341-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10341 IN ASSEMBLY May 17, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Slater) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the residency requirement for the commissioner of health and public health director 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 75 to read as follows: 3 75. 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 such person shall be chosen or within 6 which such person's official functions are required to be exercised, 7 shall not prevent a person from holding the office of commissioner of 8 health and the public health director of the county of Putnam, provided 9 that such person resides in Putnam county or an adjoining county within 10 the state of New York; provided, however that any person performing such 11 functions or holding the office of commissioner of health and public 12 health director in any other county shall be a resident of such county 13 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. LBD15577-01-4
