STATE OF NEW YORK
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7800
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the
residency requirement for the office of commissioner of finance of the
county of Putnam
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 76 to read as follows:
3 76. In the county of Putnam, 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
6 within which their official functions are required to be exercised,
7 shall not prevent a person from holding the office of commissioner of
8 finance of the county of Putnam, provided that such person resides in
9 Putnam 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 commissioner of finance in any other county shall be a
12 resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11909-01-5
