STATE OF NEW YORK
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6357
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to waiving the
residency requirement for the city attorney in the city of Mechanic-
ville, Saratoga 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 68 to read as follows:
3 68. In the city of Mechanicville, in the county of Saratoga, the
4 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the
5 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
6 or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
7 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
8 office of city attorney of the city of Mechanicville, provided that such
9 person resides in Saratoga county within the state of New York;
10 provided, however that any person performing such functions or holding
11 the office of the city attorney in any other city shall be a resident of
12 such county unless otherwise provided by law.
13 § 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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