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Senate Bill S3587

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the residency requirement for public office in counties in the state; repealer

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2025-S3587 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, rpld §3 various subs, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8434

2025-S3587 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the residency requirement for all public office positions employed by a county; provides that counties shall have the authority to determine residency requirements for each county job on a county by county basis.

2025-S3587 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3587 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3587
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  the  residency
   requirement  for public office in counties in the state; and to repeal
   certain provisions of such law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1 and 2 of section 3 of the public officers
 law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 251 of the  laws  of  2014  and
 subdivision  2  as  amended  by  chapter  1004  of the laws of 1966, are
 amended and a new subdivision 1-b is added to read as follows:
   1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
 at the time [he or she]  SUCH  PERSON  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, recreation 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 OTHER THAN A PUBLIC OFFICE POSITION EMPLOYED  BY  A
 COUNTY, a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation
 of the state for which [he or she] SUCH PERSON shall be chosen, or with-
 in which the electors electing [him or her] SUCH PERSON reside, or with-
 in  which  [his or her] SUCH PERSON'S official functions are required to
 be exercised, 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  thereto,  or of the federal selective training and service
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08058-01-5
 S. 3587                             2

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