Expands the residency requirements for New York city marshals to allow residency in the counties of Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or Putnam.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3392
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 17, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the New York city civil court act, in relation to the
domicile of New York city marshals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1601 of the New York city civil
2 court act, as amended by chapter 533 of the laws of 1979, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 1. No more than eighty-three city marshals shall be appointed by the
5 mayor. Upon the expiration of the terms of office of the duly appointed
6 incumbents the mayor shall appoint their successors for terms of five
7 years. Every marshal shall be, at the time of his or her appointment and
8 during his or her term of office, a domiciliary of the city of New York
9 or of the county of Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland or
10 Putnam, and his or her removal from the city or one of such counties
11 shall vacate his or her office[, provided that no marshal holding office
12 on the effective date of this section as hereby amended shall be
13 required to establish a domicile in the city of New York as a condition
14 to remaining in office for the remainder of the term for which he or she
15 was appointed]. If a vacancy in the office of a marshal shall occur
16 otherwise than by the expiration of a term the person appointed by the
17 mayor to fill such vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired term of
18 the marshal whom he or she succeeds.
19 § 2. 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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