Exempts the residency requirement for certain assistant district attorney positions within Saratoga County; provides such exemption does not apply to the positions of first assistant district attorney or chief assistant district attorney.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9284
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the
residency requirement for certain assistant district attorney posi-
tions within Saratoga County
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 74 to read as follows:
3 74. In the county of Saratoga, 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 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 Saratoga, provided that such person resides in
9 Saratoga 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 first assistant district attorney or chief assistant district attorney,
15 the holder of which would assume the duties of the district attorney
16 upon the district attorney's absence from the county or upon the
17 district attorney's inability to perform his 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.
LBD14510-01-4
