Senate Bill S2984

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to residency requirements for police officers in a city with a population of one million or more

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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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2021-S2984 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1951
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3 & 30, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8596, A10910
2023-2024: S7271, A2913

2021-S2984 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to residency requirements for police officers in a city with a population of one million or more; provides that 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 political subdivision or municipal corporation.

2021-S2984 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2984 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2984
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, COMRIE, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KRUEGER -- read
   twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
   Committee on Investigations and Government 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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