Bill Text: NY S02984 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to residency requirements for police officers in a city with a population of one million or more; provides that any person appointed as a paid member of the police force of such city shall become a resident of any political subdivision or municipal corporation within such city within one year of his or her appointment and shall continue to reside within any political subdivision or municipal corporation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02984 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02984-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2984 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PARKER, COMRIE, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to residency requirements for police officers in a city with a population of one million or more The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 1004 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. [Neither] In a city with a population less than one million, 5 neither the provisions of this section or of any general, special or 6 local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, 7 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or 8 municipal corporation of the state for which he or she shall be chosen 9 or within which his official functions are required to be exercised, 10 shall apply to the appointment of a person as a member of the police 11 force of any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state 12 if such person resides (a) in the county in which such political subdi- 13 vision or municipal corporation is located; or (b) in a county within 14 the state contiguous to the county in which such political subdivision 15 or municipal corporation is located; or (c) in a county within the state 16 contiguous to such political subdivision or municipal corporation; or 17 (d) in a county within the state contiguous to a county described in 18 item (c) hereof where the former is less than fifteen miles from such 19 political subdivision or municipal corporation, measured from their 20 respective nearest boundary lines; or (e) in a county within the state 21 contiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the former is 22 less than thirty miles from such political subdivision or municipal 23 corporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary lines. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06217-01-1S. 2984 2 1 § 2. Subdivision 19 of section 3 of the public officers law, as added 2 by chapter 509 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: 3 19. Any person who resides in this state and who is currently employed 4 as [a member of the police force,] a paid member of the uniformed force 5 of a paid fire department or department of corrections in the correc- 6 tional service classification of the classified civil service, of a city 7 of over one million population, shall be exempt from the provisions of 8 subdivisions one, two and nine of this section upon compliance with the 9 procedure set forth in this subdivision. Any person seeking to benefit 10 from the exemption created by this subdivision shall notify his respec- 11 tive employer in writing of said intention within thirty days from the 12 effective date of this subdivision and shall specify his or her then 13 current residence address. The exemption created by this subdivision 14 shall be applicable only to said actual designated residence and not to 15 any residence that any subject currently employed member may thereafter 16 establish; provided, however, that any such currently employed member 17 who resides outside this state shall have one year from the effective 18 date of this subdivision within which to establish residence as required 19 pursuant to subdivisions one, two and nine of this section and comply 20 with the notice requirements of this subdivision. Said residence shall 21 constitute a lawful residence for all purposes notwithstanding any 22 provision to the contrary of any general, special or local law, charter, 23 code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation. 24 § 3. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new 25 subdivision 19-a to read as follows: 26 19-a. In a city with a population of one million or more, any person 27 appointed as a paid member of the police force of such city shall become 28 a resident of any political subdivision or municipal corporation within 29 such city within one year of his or her appointment and shall continue 30 to reside within any such political subdivision or municipal corpo- 31 ration. No person appointed as a paid member of such police force may 32 continue such employment unless he or she complies with the provisions 33 of this subdivision. 34 § 4. Paragraph 1 of subdivision 4 of section 30 of the public officers 35 law, as amended by chapter 173 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read 36 as follows: 37 (1) If such person was appointed as a member of such police force 38 prior to [July first, nineteen hundred sixty-one] January first, two 39 thousand twenty-two, shall reside in any such county on such date and 40 shall continue to reside in any such county after such date, or 41 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.