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                                   10910
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 17, 2020
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 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cruz) --
   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 a city 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
 amended by chapter 1004 of the laws of  1966,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  [Neither]  IN  A  CITY  WITH  A  POPULATION LESS THAN ONE MILLION,
 NEITHER the provisions of this section or of  any  general,  special  or
 local  law,  charter,  code,  ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
 requiring a person to be a resident  of  the  political  subdivision  or
 municipal  corporation  of the state for which he OR SHE shall be chosen
 or within which his official functions are  required  to  be  exercised,
 shall  apply  to  the  appointment of a person as a member of the police
 force of any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state
 if such person resides (a) in the county in which such political  subdi-
 vision  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 subdivision or municipal corporation; or
 (d) in a county within the state contiguous to  a  county  described  in
 item  (c)  hereof  where the former is less than fifteen miles from such
 political subdivision or  municipal  corporation,  measured  from  their
 respective  nearest  boundary lines; or (e) in a county within the state
 contiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the former  is
 less  than  thirty  miles  from  such political subdivision or municipal
 corporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary lines.
   § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 3 of the public officers law, as  added
 by chapter 509 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
   19. Any person who resides in this state and who is currently employed
 as  [a member of the police force,] a paid member of the uniformed force
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16738-08-0

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 of a paid fire department or department of corrections  in  the  correc-
 tional service classification of the classified civil service, of a city
 of  over  one million population, shall be exempt from the provisions of
 subdivisions  one, two and nine of this section upon compliance with the
 procedure set forth in this subdivision. Any person seeking  to  benefit
 from  the exemption created by this subdivision shall notify his respec-
 tive employer in writing of said intention within thirty days  from  the
 effective  date  of  this  subdivision and shall specify his OR HER then
 current residence address. The exemption  created  by  this  subdivision
 shall  be applicable only to said actual designated residence and not to
 any residence that any subject currently employed member may  thereafter
 establish;  provided,  however,  that any such currently employed member
 who resides outside this state shall have one year  from  the  effective
 date of this subdivision within which to establish residence as required
 pursuant  to  subdivisions  one, two and nine of this section and comply
 with the notice requirements of this subdivision. Said  residence  shall
 constitute  a  lawful  residence  for  all  purposes notwithstanding any
 provision to the contrary of any general, special or local law, charter,
 code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation.
   § 3. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 19-a to read as follows:
   19-A.  IN  A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, ANY PERSON
 APPOINTED AS A PAID MEMBER OF THE POLICE FORCE OF SUCH CITY SHALL BECOME
 A RESIDENT OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION  WITHIN
 SUCH  CITY  WITHIN ONE YEAR OF HIS OR HER APPOINTMENT AND SHALL CONTINUE
 TO RESIDE WITHIN ANY SUCH  POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION  OR  MUNICIPAL  CORPO-
 RATION.    NO PERSON APPOINTED AS A PAID MEMBER OF SUCH POLICE FORCE MAY
 CONTINUE SUCH EMPLOYMENT UNLESS HE OR SHE COMPLIES WITH  THE  PROVISIONS
 OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision 4 of section 30 of the public officers
 law,  as  amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read
 as follows:
   (1) If such person was appointed as a  member  of  such  police  force
 prior  to  [July  first,  nineteen hundred sixty-one] JANUARY FIRST, TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-ONE, shall reside in any such county on  such  date  and
 shall continue to reside in any such county after such date, or
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.