Bill Text: NY A08090 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for village justice and/or associate justice of Cayuga Heights; allows the village board of trustees of Cayuga Heights to appoint a person who resides in the county of Tompkins.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - substituted by s7689 [A08090 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08090-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8090

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 29, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- 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 residency requirements for village justice of Cayuga Heights

          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 34 to read as follows:
     3    34. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter  or  other  general
     4  law, local law, ordinance, or special act, the village board of trustees
     5  of  the  incorporated  village of Cayuga Heights, in the county of Tomp-
     6  kins, may, by resolution, provide that the  office  of  village  justice
     7  and/or  associate justice of such village may be held by a person who is
     8  not a resident of such village, provided that such person resides within
     9  the county of Tompkins.
    10    § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
    11  subdivision 74 to read as follows:
    12    74.  In  the village of Cayuga Heights, in the county of Tompkins, 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 and/or associate justice  of  the  village  of
    18  Cayuga Heights, provided that such person resides in the county of Tomp-
    19  kins.  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 law.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13293-01-3