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Senate Bill S9610

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that county clerks and sheriffs in the city of New York be elected

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2025-S9610 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 13 §13, Constn

2025-S9610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that county clerks and sheriffs in the city of New York be elected instead of appointed.

2025-S9610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9610
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
             CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 
 proposing an amendment to article 13 of the constitution, in relation to
   requiring county clerks and sheriffs  in  the  city  of  New  York  be
   elected

   Section  1.  Resolved  (if the Assembly concur), That paragraph (a) of
 section 13 of article 13 of the  constitution  be  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (a) Except [in counties in the city of New York and except] as author-
 ized  in  section one of article nine of this constitution, registers in
 counties having registers shall be chosen by the electors of the respec-
 tive counties once in every three years and whenever  the  occurring  of
 vacancies  shall require; the sheriff and the clerk of each county shall
 be chosen by the electors once in every  three  or  four  years  as  the
 legislature shall direct. Sheriffs shall hold no other office.  They may
 be  required  by  law to renew their security, from time to time; and in
 default of giving such new  security,  their  offices  shall  be  deemed
 vacant.  The  governor  may  remove  any elective sheriff, county clerk,
 district attorney or register within the term for which [he or she] SUCH
 OFFICER shall have been elected; but before so doing the governor  shall
 give  to  such  officer  a copy of the charges against [him or her] SUCH
 OFFICER and an opportunity of being heard in [his or her] THEIR defense.
 In each county a district attorney shall be chosen by the electors  once
 in  every three or four years as the legislature shall direct. The clerk
 of each county in the city of New  York  shall  [be  appointed,  and  be
 subject  to  removal,  by the appellate division of the supreme court in
 the judicial department in which the county is located. In], IN addition
 to [his or her] SUCH CLERK'S powers and duties as clerk of  the  supreme
 court,  [he or she] shall have power to select, draw, summon and empanel
 grand and petit jurors in the manner and under  the  conditions  now  or
 hereafter prescribed by law, and shall have such other powers and duties
 as shall be prescribed by the city from time to time by local law.
   §  2.  Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the foregoing amendment
 be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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