Bill Text: NY A05355 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5355

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits the village justice of the village of Maybrook, Orange county, to reside outside of the Village boundaries but within the town of Montgomery or the town of Hamptonburgh.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - signed chap.389 [A05355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05355-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5355

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MAHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments

        AN ACT to amend the village law and the public officers law, in relation
          to permitting village justices of the village of Maybrook to  live  in
          the towns of Montgomery or Hamptonburgh

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 3-300 of the village law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 33 to read as follows:
     3    33. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other gener-
     4  al law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trus-
     5  tees of the incorporated village of Maybrook,  Orange  county,  may,  by
     6  resolution,  provide  that the office of village justice of such village
     7  may be held by a person who is not a resident of such village,  provided
     8  that  such  person  resides  within either the town of Montgomery or the
     9  town of Hamptonburgh within Orange county.
    10    § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
    11  subdivision 73 to read as follows:
    12    73.  In  the  village  of  Maybrook,  in  the  county  of  Orange, the
    13  provisions of this section requiring a person to be a  resident  of  the
    14  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
    15  or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
    16  required  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
    17  office of village justice of the village of Maybrook, provided that such
    18  person resides in the town of Montgomery or the  town  of  Hamptonburgh.
    19  Provided,  however,  the  person  performing  the  functions  of village
    20  justice in any other village shall be a resident of such village  unless
    21  otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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