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S07801 Summary:

BILL NOS07801
 
SAME ASSAME AS A08311
 
SPONSORHARCKHAM
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §3, Pub Off L
 
Waives the residency requirement for the office of Putnam county attorney.
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S07801 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7801
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 9, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        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 Putnam county attorney

          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 within
     6  which their official functions are required to be exercised,  shall  not
     7  prevent  a person regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or coun-
     8  selor in the courts of record of this state from holding the  office  of
     9  Putnam  county  attorney,  provided that such person resides in a county
    10  adjoining Putnam county within the state of New York; provided,  however
    11  that any person performing such functions or holding such offices in any
    12  other  county  shall  be  a  resident  of  such  county unless otherwise
    13  provided by law.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11908-01-5
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