Senate Bill S5176

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires a person to be a resident of the local subdivision for which such person seeks office at the time of filing designating or nominating petitions

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S5176 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1058
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L; add §§6-170 & 6-214, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1320, A5896
2013-2014: S429, A85
2015-2016: S1648, A5579
2017-2018: S4180, A4203

2009-S5176 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a person to be a resident of the local subdivision for which such person seeks office at the time of filing designating or nominating petitions.

2009-S5176 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5176 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5176

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law  and  the  election  law,  in
  relation  to  residency requirement for local government elected offi-
  cials

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended by chapter 44 of the  laws  of  1982,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
at  the time he OR SHE shall be chosen thereto, have attained the age of
eighteen years, except that in the case of youth boards,  youth  commis-
sions  or recreation commissions only, members of such boards or commis-
sions may be under the age of eighteen years, but must have attained the
age of sixteen years on or before appointment to such youth board, youth
commission or recreation commission, be a citizen of the United  States,
a  resident  of the state, and if it be a local office, BE a resident of
the political subdivision or municipal  corporation  of  the  state  for
which  he  OR SHE shall be chosen, or within which the electors electing
him OR HER reside, or within which his OR  HER  official  functions  are
required  to  be  exercised  AT  THE  TIME HE OR SHE SHALL BE OFFICIALLY
DESIGNATED OR NOMINATED, or who shall have been or shall be convicted of
a violation of the selective draft act of the United States, enacted May
eighteenth, nineteen  hundred  seventeen,  or  the  acts  amendatory  or
supplemental  thereto,  or of the federal selective training and service
act of nineteen hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof or  supple-
mental thereto.
  S 2. The election law is amended by adding a new section 6-170 to read
as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01204-01-9
              

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