Bill Text: NY A08222 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the village of Riverside to hire a village clerk/treasurer and code enforcement officer who is not a resident of such village if such individual resides in an adjoining county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - signed chap.175 [A08222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08222-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8222

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  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  authorizing  the  village  of  Riverside   to   hire   a   village
          clerk/treasurer  and code enforcement officer who is not a resident of
          such village

          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 29 to read as follows:
     3    29. 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 Riverside, Steuben county, may, by
     6  resolution, provide that the village clerk/treasurer and  code  enforce-
     7  ment  officer of the village of Riverside, Steuben county, need not be a
     8  resident of such village, but must be a resident of the county in  which
     9  such  village  is located or an adjoining county within the state of New
    10  York.
    11    § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
    12  subdivision 68 to read as follows:
    13    68.  In  the  village  of  Riverside,  in  the  county of Steuben, the
    14  provisions of this section requiring a person to be a  resident  of  the
    15  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he
    16  or she shall be chosen or within which his or her official functions are
    17  required  to  be  exercised, shall not prevent a person from holding the
    18  office of village clerk/treasurer and code enforcement  officer  of  the
    19  village of Riverside, provided that such person resides in the county in
    20  which such village is located or an adjoining county within the state of
    21  New  York.  Provided,  however,  the  person performing the functions of
    22  village clerk/treasurer  and  code  enforcement  officer  in  any  other
    23  village  shall  be a resident of such village, unless otherwise provided
    24  by an act of the state legislature.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13215-01-9
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