STATE OF NEW YORK
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8404
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SMULLEN -- 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 Johnstown,
Fulton 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 72 to read as follows:
3 72. In the city of Johnstown, in the county of Fulton, the provisions
4 of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political
5 subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or she
6 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 Johnstown, provided that such
9 person resides in Fulton county or an adjoining county within the
10 state of New York; provided, however that any person performing such
11 functions or holding the office of the city attorney in any other city
12 shall be a resident of 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.
LBD13320-01-1
