STATE OF NEW YORK
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6660
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, BARRON, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DICKENS, SIMON,
EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to residency
requirements for police officers in cities with a population of one
million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
2 amended by chapter 1004 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Neither the provisions of this section or of any general, special
5 or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
6 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or
7 municipal corporation of the state for which [he] they shall be chosen
8 or within which [his] their official functions are required to be exer-
9 cised, shall apply to the appointment of a person as a member of the
10 police force of any political subdivision or municipal corporation of
11 the state if such person resides (a) in the county in which such poli-
12 tical subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or (b) in a coun-
13 ty within the state contiguous to the county in which such political
14 subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or (c) in a county
15 within the state contiguous to such political subdivision or municipal
16 corporation; or (d) in a county within the state contiguous to a county
17 described in item (c) hereof where the former is less than fifteen miles
18 from such political subdivision or municipal corporation, measured from
19 their respective nearest boundary lines; or (e) in a county within the
20 state contiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the
21 former is less than thirty miles from such political subdivision or
22 municipal corporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary
23 lines. Provided, however, such exemption shall not apply to paid
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 members of a police force in a city with a population of one million or
2 more. Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-two, no person shall
3 be appointed a paid member of any police force in a city with a popu-
4 lation of one million or more that does not reside in the political
5 subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or she
6 shall be chosen for one year prior to being appointed and continues to
7 reside therein.
8 § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 3 of the public officers law, as added
9 by chapter 509 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
10 19. Any person who resides in this state and who is currently employed
11 as a member of the police force, a paid member of the uniformed force of
12 a paid fire department or department of corrections in the correctional
13 service classification of the classified civil service, of a city of
14 over one million population, shall be exempt from the provisions of
15 subdivisions one, two and nine of this section upon compliance with the
16 procedure set forth in this subdivision. Any person seeking to benefit
17 from the exemption created by this subdivision shall notify [his] their
18 respective employer in writing of said intention within thirty days from
19 the effective date of this subdivision and shall specify [his] their
20 then current residence address. The exemption created by this subdivi-
21 sion shall be applicable only to said actual designated residence and
22 not to any residence that any subject currently employed member may
23 thereafter establish; provided, however, that any such currently
24 employed member who resides outside this state shall have one year from
25 the effective date of this subdivision within which to establish resi-
26 dence as required pursuant to subdivisions one, two and nine of this
27 section and comply with the notice requirements of this subdivision.
28 Said residence shall constitute a lawful residence for all purposes
29 notwithstanding any provision to the contrary of any general, special or
30 local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation.
31 Such exemption shall not apply to paid members of the police force in a
32 city with a population of one million or more. Beginning January first,
33 two thousand twenty-two, no person shall be appointed a paid member of
34 the police force in a city with a population of one million or more that
35 does not reside in the political subdivision or municipal corporation of
36 the state for which he or she shall be chosen for one year prior to
37 being appointed and continues to reside therein.
38 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
