Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Laurel Hollow and allows the village board of trustees of Laurel Hollow to appoint a person who resides in the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6927
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- 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 residency requirements for village justice of Laurel Hollow
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 33 to read as follows:
3 33. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or other general
4 law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trustees
5 of the incorporated village of Laurel Hollow, in the county of Nassau,
6 may, by resolution, provide that the office of village justice and/or
7 associate justice of such village may be held by a person who is not a
8 resident of such village, provided that such person resides within the
9 county of Nassau or the town of Huntington, in the county of Suffolk.
10 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
11 subdivision 73 to read as follows:
12 73. In the village of Laurel Hollow, in the county of Nassau, the
13 provisions of this section requiring a person to be a resident of the
14 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
15 or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
16 required to be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
17 office of village justice and/or associate justice of the village of
18 Laurel Hollow, provided that such person resides in the county of Nassau
19 or the town of Huntington, county of Suffolk. Provided, however, the
20 person performing the functions of village justice in any other village
21 shall be a resident of such village unless otherwise provided by law.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11284-02-3
