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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7412
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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 Montour, county of Schuyl-
          er, 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 37 to read as follows:
     3    37. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
     4  in the town of Montour, in the county of Schuyler, 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 76 to read as follows:
    11    76.  In the town of Montour, in the county of Schuyler, the provisions
    12  of this section requiring a person to be a  resident  of  the  political
    13  subdivision  or municipal corporation of the state for which such person
    14  shall be chosen or within which such  person's  official  functions  are
    15  required  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
    16  office of town justice of the town of Montour; provided that such person
    17  resides in a town which is in the county of Schuyler. Provided, however,
    18  the person performing the function of town justice  in  any  other  town
    19  shall be a resident of such town, unless otherwise provided by law.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11504-01-5