Bill Text: NY S08334 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts persons holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Columbia from the requirement that such persons reside in such county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-17 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8622 [S08334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08334-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8334

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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  the  qualifica-
          tions  for  holding  the  office of assistant district attorney in the
          county of Columbia

          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 74 to read as follows:
     3    74.  In the county of Columbia, 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 of the county of Columbia, provided that such person resides in
     9  Columbia county or an adjoining county within the  state  of  New  York;
    10  provided,  however  that any person performing such functions or holding
    11  the office of assistant district attorney in any other county shall be a
    12  resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The provisions
    13  of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the office  of
    14  first  assistant district attorney or chief assistant district attorney,
    15  the holder of which would assume the duties  of  the  district  attorney
    16  upon  the  district  attorney's  absence  from  the  county  or upon the
    17  district attorney's inability to perform his or her 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.
                                                                   LBD13738-01-3