STATE OF NEW YORK
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9785
IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to qualification to
hold the position of assistant district attorney in the county of
Orange
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 72 to read as follows:
3 72. In the county of Orange, 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 Orange, provided that such person resides in
9 Orange 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 chief assistant district attorney, the holder of which would assume the
15 duties of the district attorney upon the district attorney's absence
16 from the county or upon the district attorney's inability to perform his
17 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.
LBD15172-01-2
