STATE OF NEW YORK
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7639
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government 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
