STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 391 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law in relation to the removal of residency as a condition precedent to employment for any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state or any of its agen- cies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative finding and declaration. The legislature hereby 2 finds and declares that there is a substantial state interest in the 3 fair and equitable treatment of public employees throughout the state 4 who are permitted to reside in localities outside the political subdivi- 5 sion or municipal corporation of the state for which they work. That 6 substantial state interest would be furthered by establishing that no 7 employee who resides in a permitted locality be subject to any levy or 8 payment by choosing to reside in such permitted locality. Therefore, the 9 legislature declares the necessity for the enactment of this act to 10 establish that no public employee who becomes a nonresident of a poli- 11 tical subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or 12 she works shall be obligated to make a payment because he or she becomes 13 a nonresident by residing in a locality permitted by state or other 14 applicable law. 15 § 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new 16 subdivision 66 to read as follows: 17 66. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or of any general, 18 special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or 19 regulation to the contrary, commencing on January first of the calendar 20 year after the effective date of this subdivision, no employee of any 21 political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state or any of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02406-01-7S. 391 2 1 its agencies that resides in a county permitted by this section or any 2 other applicable law shall be obligated to make any payment or satisfy 3 any levy pursuant to a condition of employment, or agreement that such 4 employee may have signed, that such employee shall pay any amount if 5 such employee becomes a nonresident of the political subdivision or 6 municipal corporation of the state. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.