Waives the residency requirement for the Herkimer county commissioner of social services, provided that such person remains a resident of an adjoining county.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6405
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2023
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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 waiving the
residency requirement for the Herkimer county commissioner of social
services
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 Herkimer, 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 Herkimer county commis-
8 sioner of social services, provided that such person resides in a county
9 adjoining Herkimer county within the state of New York; provided, howev-
10 er that any person performing such functions or holding the office of
11 county commissioner of social services in any other county shall be a
12 resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law.
13 § 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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