STATE OF NEW YORK
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1787
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation
to authorizing the village of Northport, in Suffolk county, to hire a
village clerk or deputy clerk who is not a resident of such village
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3-300 of the village law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 31 to read as follows:
3 31. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
4 al law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trus-
5 tees of the incorporated village of Northport, Suffolk County, may, by
6 resolution, provide that the village clerk or deputy clerk of the
7 village of Northport, Suffolk County, need not be a resident of such
8 village, provided that such person resides in the county in which
9 such village is located or an adjoining county within the state of New
10 York.
11 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
12 subdivision 71 to read as follows:
13 71. In the village of Northport, in the county of Suffolk, the
14 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the
15 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
16 or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
17 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
18 office of village clerk or deputy clerk of the village of Northport,
19 provided that such person resides in the county in which such village is
20 located or an adjoining county within the state of New York.
21 § 3. 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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