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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7729
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 11, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 Angelica, county of  Alle-
          gany, 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 34 to read as follows:
     3    34. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
     4  in  the town of Angelica, in the county of Allegany, the person perform-
     5  ing 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 70 to read as follows:
    11    70. In the town of Angelica, in the county of Allegany, 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  he  or  she
    14  shall  be  chosen  or  within  which  his  or her 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 Angelica; provided that such
    17  person resides in a town which adjoins such town and  which  is  in  the
    18  county  of  Allegany. Provided, however, the person performing the func-
    19  tion of town justice in any other town shall be a resident of such town,
    20  unless otherwise 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.
                                                                   LBD15234-01-0