Bill Text: NY S08882 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes a person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Oswego to reside in an adjoining county within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-07-31 - SIGNED CHAP.185 [S08882 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08882-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8882--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 31, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing a
          person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county
          of Oswego to reside in an adjoining county within the state
          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 67 to read as follows:
     3    67.  In the county of Oswego, 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 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  Oswego,  other  than  the  first  assistant
     9  district attorney, provided that such person resides in Oswego county or
    10  in  an adjoining county within the state of New York; provided, however,
    11  that any person performing such  functions  or  holding  the  office  of
    12  assistant  district  attorney in any other county shall be a resident of
    13  such county unless otherwise provided by law.  The  provisions  of  this
    14  subdivision  shall  not  apply to any person holding the office of first
    15  assistant district attorney or chief assistant  district  attorney,  the
    16  holder  of  which  would assume the duties of the district attorney upon
    17  the district attorney's absence from the county  or  upon  the  district
    18  attorney's inability to perform his or her duties.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16115-03-8