STATE OF NEW YORK
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7287
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
authorizing the assistant court clerk and fire marshal of the town of
Harrison, county of Westchester, to be nonresidents of such town
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 23 of the town law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 37 to read as follows:
3 37. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
4 in the town of Harrison, in the county of Westchester, the person
5 performing the function of assistant court clerk or fire marshal, need
6 not be an elector of such town. Provided, however, the person perform-
7 ing the function of assistant court clerk or fire marshal in any other
8 town shall be an elector of such town, unless otherwise provided by an
9 act of the state legislature.
10 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
11 subdivision 76 to read as follows:
12 76. In the town of Harrison, in the county of Westchester, 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
15 such person shall be chosen or within which such person's official func-
16 tions are required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from
17 holding the office of assistant court clerk or fire marshal of the town
18 of Harrison; provided that such person resides in a town which is in the
19 county of Westchester. Provided, however, the person performing the
20 function of assistant court clerk or fire marshal in any other town
21 shall be a resident of such town, 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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