Bill Text: NY S02125 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2125 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes a person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Lewis to reside in an adjoining county within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.396 [S02125 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02125-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2125
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- 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  authorizing  a
          person holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county
          of Lewis to reside in an adjoining county within the state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 68 to read as follows:
     3    68. In the county of Lewis, the provisions of this section requiring a
     4  person to be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corpo-
     5  ration of the state for which he or she shall be chosen or within  which
     6  his  or  her  official functions are required to be exercised, shall not
     7  prevent a person from holding the office of assistant district  attorney
     8  of  the  county of Lewis, other than the first assistant district attor-
     9  ney, provided that such person resides in Lewis county or in an  adjoin-
    10  ing  county  within  the  state of New York; provided, however, that any
    11  person performing such functions or  holding  the  office  of  assistant
    12  district attorney in any other county shall be a resident of such county
    13  unless  otherwise  provided  by  law. The provisions of this subdivision
    14  shall not apply to any person holding  the  office  of  first  assistant
    15  district  attorney  or  chief assistant district attorney, the holder of
    16  which would assume the duties of the district attorney upon the district
    17  attorney's absence from the  county  or  upon  the  district  attorney's
    18  inability to perform his or her duties.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06991-01-9