STATE OF NEW YORK
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2288
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the
waiver of the residency requirement for the city attorney in the city
of Mechanicville, Saratoga county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 68 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
2 added by chapter 461 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 [68.] 71. In the city of Mechanicville, in the county of Saratoga, the
4 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the
5 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
6 or she 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 Mechanicville, provided that such
9 person resides in Saratoga 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.
LBD01276-01-1
