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Assembly Bill A10405

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to removing residency requirements for Ulster county assistant district attorneys

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2025-A10405 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9387
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L

2025-A10405 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes residency requirements for persons holding the office of assistant district attorney for the county of Ulster; provides that a person holding such office may reside in Ulster county or an adjoining county within the state.

2025-A10405 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10405
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to removing resi-
   dency requirements for Ulster county assistant district attorneys
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 77 to read as follows:
   77.  IN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION REQUIRING
 A PERSON TO BE A RESIDENT OF  THE  POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION  OR  MUNICIPAL
 CORPORATION OF THE STATE FOR WHICH SUCH PERSON SHALL BE CHOSEN OR WITHIN
 WHICH  SUCH  PERSON'S  OFFICIAL  FUNCTIONS ARE REQUIRED TO BE EXERCISED,
 SHALL NOT PREVENT A PERSON FROM HOLDING THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT
 ATTORNEY FOR THE COUNTY OF ULSTER, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON RESIDES  IN
 ULSTER  COUNTY  OR  AN  ADJOINING  COUNTY  WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY PERSON PERFORMING SUCH FUNCTIONS OR  HOLDING
 THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN ANY OTHER COUNTY SHALL BE A
 RESIDENT OF SUCH COUNTY UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW. THE PROVISIONS
 OF  THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY PERSON HOLDING THE OFFICE OF
 FIRST ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY OR CHIEF ASSISTANT DISTRICT  ATTORNEY,
 THE  HOLDER  OF  WHICH  WOULD ASSUME THE DUTIES OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
 UPON THE DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  ABSENCE  FROM  THE  COUNTY  OR  UPON  THE
 DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  INABILITY  TO  PERFORM  SUCH  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S
 DUTIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14649-01-6

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