STATE OF NEW YORK
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8212
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to permitting poli-
tical subdivisions and municipal corporations of the state to set the
residency requirements for certain positions
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 1-b to read as follows:
3 1-b. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section or of any general,
4 special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or
5 regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
6 vision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall
7 be chosen or within which their official functions are required to be
8 exercised, the legislative body of a political subdivision or municipal
9 corporation of the state may by local law, ordinance or resolution, set
10 or waive such residency requirements.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11773-01-5
