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Assembly Bill A11395

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Monroe county

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2025-A11395 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L

2025-A11395 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits Yates county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders to reside in Monroe county.

2025-A11395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11395
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Palmesano)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to permitting Yates
   county assistant district attorneys and assistant public defenders  to
   reside in Monroe county
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 38 and 38-a of section 3 of the  public  offi-
 cers  law, as amended by chapter 405 of the laws of 2025, are amended to
 read as follows:
   38. In the county of Yates, the provisions of this section requiring a
 person to be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corpo-
 ration 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 of the county of Yates, other than the first assistant district
 attorney, provided that such person resides in Yates county, an  adjoin-
 ing  county within the state of New York, [or] within Chemung county, OR
 WITHIN MONROE COUNTY.
   38-a. In the county of Yates, 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 regularly admitted to practice as an attorney
 or counselor in the courts of record of  this  state  from  holding  the
 office  of  assistant  public  defender of the county of Yates, provided
 that such person resides in the county of  Yates,  an  adjoining  county
 within  the  state  of  New  York, [or] within Chemung county, OR WITHIN
 MONROE COUNTY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15864-01-6

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