Assembly Bill A1779

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation

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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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2015-A1779 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1996
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3 & 30, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9929, S6668
2017-2018: A7070, S5438

2015-A1779 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation; removes the five years of service residency issue.

2015-A1779 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1779

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers  law, in relation to residency
  requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended  by  chapter  200  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  2-a. Neither the provisions of  this  section,  nor  of  any  general,
special  or  local  law,  charter,  code, ordinance, resolution, rule or
regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political  subdi-
vision  or  municipal  corporation  of  the  state for which he shall be
chosen or within which his official functions are required to  be  exer-
cised,  shall  apply to the appointment of a member of the department of
sanitation of any municipality of the state  who  resides  in  a  county
within  the  state  contiguous  to  such  municipality.  A member of the
department of sanitation  of  any  political  subdivision  or  municipal
corporation  [who has five or more years of service] may reside (a) in a
county in which such political subdivision or municipal  corporation  is
located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county in
which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or
(c)  in  a county within the state contiguous to such political subdivi-
sion or municipal corporation; or (d) in a county within the state which
is not more than fifteen miles from such political subdivision or munic-
ipal corporation.
  S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 30 of the public officers law, as  sepa-
rately  amended  by chapters 200 and 209 of the laws of 2006, is amended
to read as follows:
  5. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special
or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or  regulation,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00684-01-5
              

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