STATE OF NEW YORK
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6404--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 24, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT in relation to citizenship requirements in the county of Ononda-
ga; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the public
2 officers law requiring a person holding a civil office to be a citizen
3 of the United States, in the county of Onondaga there may be one person
4 holding the office of assistant district attorney for such county who is
5 a resident of such county but is not a citizen of the United States,
6 provided that all assistant district attorneys of such county shall meet
7 all of the qualifications for holding such office pursuant to section 3
8 of the public officers law within four years of the effective date of
9 this act unless otherwise provided by law. Provided, further, that any
10 person performing the functions or holding the office of assistant
11 district attorney in any other county shall be a citizen of the United
12 States unless otherwise provided by law. The provisions of this act
13 shall not apply to any person holding the office of first assistant
14 district attorney, chief assistant district attorney, or any other
15 office the holder of which would assume the duties of the district
16 attorney upon the district attorney's absence from the county or upon
17 the district attorney's inability to perform his or her duties.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
19 deemed repealed four years after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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