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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7402
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 27, 2016
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
        AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
          authorizing the town justice of the town of Allen, county of Allegany,
          to be a nonresident of such town
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  23  of  the  town law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 30 to read as follows:
     3    30. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
     4  in the town of Allen, in the county of Allegany, the  person  performing
     5  the  function  of  town  justice,  need  not be an elector of such town.
     6  Provided, however, the person performing the function of town justice in
     7  any other town shall be  an  elector  of  such  town,  unless  otherwise
     8  provided by an act of the state legislature.
     9    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 65 to read as follows:
    11    65. In the town of Allen, in the county of Allegany, the provisions of
    12  this section requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi-
    13  vision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or  she  shall
    14  be  chosen or within which his or her official functions are required to
    15  be exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the office of town
    16  justice of the town of Allen; provided that such  person  resides  in  a
    17  town  which  adjoins  such  town and which is in the county of Allegany.
    18  Provided, however, the person performing the function of town justice in
    19  any other town shall be  a  resident  of  such  town,  unless  otherwise
    20  provided by law.
    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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