S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6227
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMONE, FORREST, GALLAGHER, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to deleting the
citizenship requirement for holding civil office
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended by chapter 251 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:
1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
at the time [he or she] THEY shall be chosen thereto, have attained the
age of eighteen years, except that in the case of youth boards, youth
commissions, recreation commissions, or community boards in the city of
New York only, members of such boards or commissions may be under the
age of eighteen years, but must have attained the age of sixteen years
on or before appointment to such youth board, youth commission, recre-
ation commission, or community board in the city of New York, be [a
citizen of the United States,] a resident of the state, and if it be a
local office, a resident of the political subdivision or municipal
corporation of the state for which [he or she] THEY shall be chosen, or
within which the electors electing [him or her] THEM reside, or within
which [his or her] THEIR official functions are required to be exer-
cised, or who shall have been or shall be convicted of a violation of
the selective draft act of the United States, enacted May eighteenth,
nineteen hundred seventeen, or the acts amendatory or supplemental ther-
eto, or of the federal selective training and service act of nineteen
hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
WHERE ANY OTHER LAW IMPOSES ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR HOLDING ANY CIVIL
OFFICE, THOSE CRITERIA SHALL APPLY TO THAT OFFICE IN ADDITION TO THE
REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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