Bill Text: NY A10538 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to a residency exemption for plumbing inspectors in the city of Tonawanda allowing for the designation or appointment of an inspector or inspectors of plumbing where such inspectors shall be citizens and actual residents of the county wherein the city is situated, or in an abutting or adjacent county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-11 - SIGNED CHAP.279 [A10538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10538-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10538

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2020
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Schimminger)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  city  law,  in relation to a residency
          exemption for plumbing inspectors in the city of Tonawanda

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 48 of the general city law, as amended by chapter
     2  585 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 48. Inspectors; qualifications; notice. The local board of health or
     4  an official or board designated by local law of such city, as  the  case
     5  may  be shall detail, designate or appoint an inspector or inspectors of
     6  plumbing, subject, however, to the provisions  or  limitations  of  law,
     7  regulating the appointment of such inspectors by such board of health or
     8  an  official  or board designated by local law of such city. All inspec-
     9  tors of plumbing who are detailed,  designated  or  appointed  shall  be
    10  practical  plumbers  and  shall not be engaged directly or indirectly in
    11  the business of plumbing, during the period of their  appointment.  They
    12  shall  be  citizens  and  actual residents of the city in which they are
    13  appointed; except in the cities of  Cortland  and  Corning,  where  such
    14  inspectors shall be citizens and actual residents of the county or coun-
    15  ties wherein the city is situated, or in an abutting or adjacent county;
    16  except in the city of Watertown, where such inspectors shall be citizens
    17  and  actual  residents of the county wherein the city is situated except
    18  in the city of Middletown, where such inspectors shall be  citizens  and
    19  actual residents of the county wherein the city is situated, or within a
    20  twenty-five  mile  radius  of  the  city  of  Middletown as long as such
    21  inspectors are citizens and actual residents of this  state;  except  in
    22  the city of Tonawanda, where such inspectors shall be citizens and actu-
    23  al  residents of the county wherein the city is situated, or in an abut-
    24  ting or adjacent county; except in any city with a  population  of  less
    25  than  twenty-five  thousand, where such inspectors shall be citizens and
    26  actual residents of the county or counties wherein the city is situated.
    27  Before entering upon the discharge of their duties  as  such  inspectors
    28  they  shall  each be required to obtain a certificate of competency from

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16215-02-0

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     1  said examining board. They shall be entitled to receive compensation  to
     2  be fixed by the officer, board, commission or department having power to
     3  fix  salaries generally or, if there be no officer, board, commission or
     4  department thereof having such power, by the board of aldermen or common
     5  council.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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