Senate Bill S5758

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to residency requirements for inspectors of plumbing in the city of Rochester

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Current Bill Status Via A6953 - Passed Senate

  • 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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2025-S5758 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6953
Law Section:
General City Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §48, Gen City L

2025-S5758 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that in the city of Rochester plumbing inspectors shall be citizens and residents of the county in which the city is located.

2025-S5758 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5758 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5758
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 2
 
 AN ACT to amend the  general  city  law,  in  relation  to  a  residency
   exemption for plumbing inspectors in the city of Rochester
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 48 of the general city law, as  separately  amended
 by  chapters  173  and  279  of  the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 48. Inspectors; qualifications; notice. The local board of health or
 an official or board designated by local law of such city, as  the  case
 may  be shall detail, designate or appoint an inspector or inspectors of
 plumbing, subject, however, to the provisions  or  limitations  of  law,
 regulating the appointment of such inspectors by such board of health or
 an  official  or board designated by local law of such city. All inspec-
 tors of plumbing who are detailed,  designated  or  appointed  shall  be
 practical  plumbers  and  shall not be engaged directly or indirectly in
 the business of plumbing, during the period of their  appointment.  They
 shall  be  citizens  and  actual residents of the city in which they are
 appointed; except in the cities of  Cortland  and  Corning,  where  such
 inspectors shall be citizens and actual residents of the county or coun-
 ties wherein the city is situated, or in an abutting or adjacent county;
 EXCEPT IN THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, WHERE SUCH INSPECTORS SHALL BE CITIZENS
 AND  ACTUAL RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY WHEREIN THE CITY IS SITUATED; except
 in the city of Watertown, where such inspectors shall  be  citizens  and
 actual  residents  of  the county wherein the city is situated except in
 the city of Middletown, where such  inspectors  shall  be  citizens  and
 actual residents of the county wherein the city is situated, or within a
 twenty-five  mile  radius  of  the  city  of  Middletown as long as such
 inspectors are citizens and actual residents of this  state;  except  in
 the city of Jamestown, where such inspectors shall be citizens and actu-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10377-01-5

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