STATE OF NEW YORK
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8678
IN SENATE
February 28, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- 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 allowing the
Seneca county attorney to reside in a county adjoining Seneca 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 74 to read as follows:
3 74. In the county of Seneca, 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 he or she shall be chosen or within
6 which his or her official functions are required to be exercised, shall
7 not prevent a person regularly admitted to practice as an attorney or
8 counselor in the courts of record of this state from holding the office
9 of Seneca county attorney, provided that such person resides in the
10 county of Seneca, or an adjoining county within the state of New York.
11 Provided, however, the person performing the functions of county attor-
12 ney in any other county shall be a resident of such county, unless
13 otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14354-01-4
