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Senate Bill S9387

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to removing residency requirements for Ulster county assistant district attorneys

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2025-S9387 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10405
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L

2025-S9387 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes residency requirements for persons holding the office of assistant district attorney for the county of Ulster; provides that a person holding such office may reside in Ulster county or an adjoining county within the state.

2025-S9387 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9387 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9387
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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  removing  resi-
   dency requirements for Ulster county assistant district attorneys
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 77 to read as follows:
   77. IN THE COUNTY OF ULSTER, 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 FROM HOLDING THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT
 ATTORNEY  FOR THE COUNTY OF ULSTER, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON RESIDES IN
 ULSTER COUNTY OR AN ADJOINING COUNTY  WITHIN  THE  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK;
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT ANY PERSON PERFORMING SUCH FUNCTIONS OR HOLDING
 THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN ANY OTHER COUNTY SHALL BE A
 RESIDENT OF SUCH COUNTY UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW. THE PROVISIONS
 OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY PERSON HOLDING THE OFFICE  OF
 FIRST  ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY OR CHIEF ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
 THE HOLDER OF WHICH WOULD ASSUME THE DUTIES  OF  THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY
 UPON  THE  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  ABSENCE  FROM  THE  COUNTY  OR UPON THE
 DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S  INABILITY  TO  PERFORM  SUCH  DISTRICT  ATTORNEY'S
 DUTIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14649-01-6

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