Authorizes the city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring a member of the police force in such city to be a resident of Buffalo subsequent to the effective date of such local law.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A3048
SPONSOR: Peoples-Stokes TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing the
city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be
residents of Buffalo
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the city of Buffalo to enact a
local law requiring its new police officers to be residents of the city.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill adds a new subdivision to 70 to section 3 of the public offi-
cers law in order to authorize the city of Buffalo to enact a local law
requiring its new police officers to be residents of the city.
JUSTIFICATION:
When police officers are also residents of the municipality they serve,
they are more familiar with, committed to, and accountable to the commu-
nity and the other residents of the municipality. This bill empowers the
city of Buffalo to require new police officers to reside in the city of
Buffalo, which will have a positive impact on the entire city.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
A10719 of 2019/20.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3048
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing the
city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be
residents of Buffalo
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 71 to read as follows:
3 71. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
4 or any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code,
5 ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, the city of
6 Buffalo, as of the effective date of this subdivision, shall have the
7 authority to enact a local law subsequent to the effective date of this
8 subdivision requiring any person who is appointed as a member of the
9 police force of such city to be a resident of such a city during his or
10 her employment as a member of such police force; provided however, that
11 nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to affect any
12 person who entered such city service as a police officer prior to thirty
13 days subsequent to the effective date of such local 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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