STATE OF NEW YORK
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8276
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 29, 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 qualification to
hold the position of assistant county attorney in the county of Rock-
land
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 Rockland, 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 they shall be chosen or within which
6 their official functions are required to be exercised, shall not prevent
7 a person from holding the office of the assistant county attorney of the
8 county of Rockland, provided that such person resides in Rockland coun-
9 ty, any county of the Ninth Judicial District of New York, New York
10 city, or any other adjoining county; provided, however that any person
11 performing such functions or holding the office of the assistant county
12 attorney in any other county shall be a resident of such county unless
13 otherwise 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.
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