STATE OF NEW YORK
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5766
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- 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 the residency of
correction officers employed by the county of Nassau
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 68 to read as follows:
3 68. In the county of Nassau, the provisions of this section, or of any
4 general, special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution,
5 rule or regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political
6 subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person
7 shall be chosen or within which such person's official functions are
8 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
9 office of correction officer in Nassau county, provided, however, that
10 such person performing the duties and functions of correction officer
11 resides in Nassau county or any adjoining county within New York state
12 unless otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11570-01-9
