STATE OF NEW YORK
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3827
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAY, BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to removing resi-
dency requirements for Jefferson county assistant district attorneys
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 76 to read as follows:
3 76. In the county of Jefferson, 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 such person shall be chosen or within
6 which such person's official functions are required to be exercised,
7 shall not prevent a person from holding the office of assistant district
8 attorney; provided, however, that any person performing such functions
9 or holding the office of assistant district attorney in any other county
10 shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The
11 provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the
12 office of first assistant district attorney or chief assistant district
13 attorney, the holder of which would assume the duties of the district
14 attorney upon the district attorney's absence from the county or upon
15 the district attorney's inability to perform such person's duties.
16 § 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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