STATE OF NEW YORK
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6737
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 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 qualifications
for holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of
Washington
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 county of Washington, the provisions of this section
4 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or
5 municipal corporation of the state for which he or she shall be chosen
6 or within which his or her official functions are required to be exer-
7 cised, shall not prevent a person from holding the office of assistant
8 district attorney of the county of Washington, provided that such person
9 resides in Washington county or an adjoining county within the state of
10 New York; provided, however that any person performing such functions or
11 holding the office of assistant district attorney in any other county
12 shall be a resident of such county unless otherwise provided by law. The
13 provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to any person holding the
14 office of first assistant district attorney or chief assistant district
15 attorney, 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.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10762-01-9
