Bill Text: NY S01678 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the board of trustees of the village of East Syracuse to permit that the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by a non-resident who lives in the town of Dewitt.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S01678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01678-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1678

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to authorize the board of trustees of the village of  East  Syra-
          cuse  to  permit  that  the office of village justice and/or associate
          justice may be held by a non-resident, provided that  they  reside  in
          the town of Dewitt

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions  of  section  3-300  of  the
     2  village  law and section 3 of the public officers law requiring a person
     3  to be a resident of the political subdivision or  municipal  corporation
     4  of  the state for which such person shall be chosen or within which such
     5  person's official functions are required to be  exercised,  the  village
     6  board  of  trustees of the incorporated village of East Syracuse, in the
     7  county of Onondaga, is hereby authorized to provide, by resolution, that
     8  the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by  a
     9  person  who is not a resident of such village, provided that such person
    10  resides within the town of Dewitt, in the county of Onondaga.  Provided,
    11  however,  the  person performing the functions of village justice and/or
    12  associate justice in any other village  shall  be  a  resident  of  such
    13  village, unless 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.
                                                                   LBD03905-02-5