STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3898 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing the city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be residents of Buffalo 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 71 to read as follows: 3 71. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section, 4 or any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code, 5 ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, the city of 6 Buffalo, as of the effective date of this subdivision, shall have the 7 authority to enact a local law subsequent to the effective date of this 8 subdivision requiring any person who is appointed as a member of the 9 police force of such city to be a resident of such a city during his or 10 her employment as a member of such police force; provided however, that 11 nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to affect any 12 person who entered such city service as a police officer prior to thirty 13 days subsequent to the effective date of such local 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. LBD02440-01-1