Prohibits an assistant district attorney from running for public office, other than the office of district attorney or a position as a judicial officer who is authorized to preside over a court of record, unless such individual first resigns from his or her public employment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7407
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 7, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting an
assistant district attorney from running for certain public offices,
unless such individual first resigns from current employment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3-c of the public officers law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. No assistant district attorney shall seek nomination or election to
4 any compensated federal, state or local public office, other than the
5 office of district attorney or a position as a judicial officer who is
6 authorized to preside over a court of record, or shall become a candi-
7 date for such office, unless such individual first resigns from his or
8 her public employment, or requests and is granted by their appointing
9 authority a leave of absence without pay. Such resignation or leave must
10 commence before such individual engages in any campaign activities,
11 including but not limited to, announcing a candidacy, circulating
12 petitions, soliciting contributions, distributing literature, or taking
13 any other action to actively promote oneself as a candidate for elective
14 office.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect thirty days after it shall have become
16 a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11100-03-1
