Bill Text: NY S06442 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes residency requirements for Jefferson county assistant district attorneys.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06442-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6442

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 20, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- 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  removing  resi-
          dency requirements for Jefferson county assistant district attorneys

          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 73 to read as follows:
     3    73. In the county of Jefferson, the provisions of this section requir-
     4  ing 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  from  holding  the office of assistant district
     8  attorney; provided, however, that any person performing  such  functions
     9  or holding the office of assistant district attorney in any other county
    10  shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The
    11  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the
    12  office  of first assistant district attorney or chief assistant district
    13  attorney, the holder of which would assume the duties  of  the  district
    14  attorney  upon  the  district attorney's absence from the county or upon
    15  the district attorney's inability to perform his or her duties.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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