STATE OF NEW YORK
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9916
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE -- 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 county attorney positions within
Greene 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 75 to read as follows:
3 75. In the county of Greene, the provisions of this section requiring
4 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 their official functions are required to be exercised, shall not
7 prevent a person from holding the office of assistant public defender of
8 the county of Greene, provided that such person resides in a county
9 adjoining Greene county within the state of New York; provided, however
10 that any person performing such functions or holding such offices in any
11 other county shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise
12 provided by law. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to
13 any person holding the office of first assistant public defender, the
14 holder of which would assume the duties of the public defender upon the
15 public defender's absence from the county or upon the public defender's
16 inability to perform their duties.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15188-01-4
