Authorizes the taking and filing of oaths of office; authorizes officials who failed to take or file their required oath of office within the statutorily prescribed period to take and file such oaths within thirty days of the effective date of this act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10690
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT authorizing the taking and filing of oaths of office
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the
2 contrary, any town, city or county official duly elected on November 7,
3 2017 who currently occupies the office to which he or she was elected
4 but who failed to take or file his or her respective oath of office
5 within the statutorily prescribed period shall continue to serve in such
6 capacity and for the full term to which he or she was elected upon the
7 taking and filing of oaths of office consistent with section 402 of the
8 county law, section 25 of the town law, or section 10 of the public
9 officers law, provided such oaths are taken and filed within 30 calendar
10 days after the effective date of this act. Such officials that take and
11 file their oaths of office under this act shall be deemed to have been
12 continuously serving in office since the beginning of the term to which
13 they were elected.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15550-02-8
