Senate Bill S7796A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-S7796 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8180
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L

2025-S7796 - Summary

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

2025-S7796 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7796 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7796
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to repeal subdivisions 38 and 38-a of section  3  of  the  public
   officers  law,  relating  to exempting Yates county assistant district
   attorneys and assistant  public  defenders  from  the  requirement  to
   reside in Yates 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 cers law are REPEALED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11512-01-5

2025-S7796A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8180
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L

2025-S7796A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S7796A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7796A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7796--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, permitting Yates county assist-
   ant  district  attorneys  and  assistant public defenders to reside in
   Chemung 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, subdivision 38 as added by chapter 456 of the laws of 1994 and
 subdivision 38-a as added by chapter  436  of  the  laws  of  1998,  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 [he] SUCH PERSON shall be chosen or within
 which  [his]  SUCH  PERSON'S official functions are required to be exer-
 cised, 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
 [or], an adjoining county within  the  state  of  New  York,  OR  WITHIN
 CHEMUNG 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 [he or  she]  SUCH  PERSON  shall  be
 chosen or within which [his or her] 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 [or],
 an  adjoining  county  within  the  state of New York, OR WITHIN CHEMUNG
 COUNTY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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