Authorizes the city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring a member of the police force in such city to be a resident of Buffalo subsequent to the effective date of such local law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8694
IN SENATE
July 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing the
city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be
residents of Buffalo
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 70 to read as follows:
3 70. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
4 or any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code,
5 ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, the city of
6 Buffalo, as of the effective date of this subdivision, shall have the
7 authority to enact a local law subsequent to the effective date of this
8 subdivision requiring any person who is appointed as a member of the
9 police force of such city to be a resident of such a city during his or
10 her employment as a member of such police force; provided however, that
11 nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to affect any
12 person who entered such city service as a police officer prior to thirty
13 days subsequent to the effective date of such local law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16701-01-0
