Expands geographical boundaries for residency requirements of correction officers employed by local correction facilities of Rockland and Orange counties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9020--C
Cal. No. 532
IN SENATE
January 22, 2026
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, SKOUFIS, WEBER -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
gations and Government Operations -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding
geographical boundaries for residency requirements of correction offi-
cers employed by the counties of Rockland and Orange
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 2-e to read as follows:
3 2-e. Neither the provisions of this section, nor 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's
7 official functions are required to be exercised, shall apply to the
8 appointment of a person as a correction recruit, correction officer,
9 correction corporal, correction sergeant, correction lieutenant,
10 correction captain, correction colonel, chief of corrections, assistant
11 warden, or warden by a sheriff's department or local correctional facil-
12 ity of any political subdivision or municipal corporation in the coun-
13 ties of Rockland and Orange if such person resides: (a) in the counties
14 of Rockland and Orange; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous
15 to the counties of Rockland and Orange.
16 § 2. Section 30 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
17 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
18 9. Neither the provisions of this section, nor any general, special or
19 local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
20 creating a vacancy in a local office of a political subdivision or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 municipal corporation of the state if the incumbent thereof ceases to be
2 a resident of the state or such political subdivision or municipal
3 corporation, shall apply in the case of a person holding the office of
4 correction recruit, correction officer, correction corporal, correction
5 sergeant, correction lieutenant, correction captain, correction colonel,
6 chief of corrections, assistant warden, or warden employed by a sher-
7 iff's department or local correctional facility of any political subdi-
8 vision or municipal corporation in the counties of Rockland and Orange
9 as of April fourth, two thousand twenty-six, provided such person
10 resides within forty-five miles of the counties of Rockland and Orange,
11 measured from the nearest boundary line of such counties.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
