Provides that the village board of trustees of the incorporated village of Haverstraw, Rockland county, may by resolution, provide that the office of assessor of such village may be held by a person who is not a resident of such village, provided that such person resides in Rockland, Westchester, Orange or Putnam county.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5638
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 8, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation
to the office of the assessor of the village of Haverstraw, Rockland
county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3-300 of the village law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
3 20. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
4 al law, local law, ordinance or special act, the village board of trus-
5 tees of the incorporated village of Haverstraw, Rockland county, may by
6 resolution, provide that the office of assessor of such village may be
7 held by a person who is not a resident of such village, provided that
8 such person resides in the counties of Rockland, Westchester, Orange, or
9 Putnam.
10 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
11 subdivision 58 to read as follows:
12 58. In the village of Haverstraw, in the county of Rockland, the
13 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the
14 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
15 or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
16 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
17 office of assessor of the village provided that such person resides in
18 the county in which such village is located or an adjoining county with-
19 in the state of New York. Provided, however, the person performing the
20 functions of village assessor in any other village shall be an elector
21 of such village, unless otherwise provided by law.
22 § 3. 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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