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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 27, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the town law and the public officers law, in relation to
         authorizing town justices in the town of Piercefield, in the county of
         St. Lawrence, to reside outside such town
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  23  of  the  town law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 26 to read as follows:
    3    26. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION,
    4  IN THE TOWN OF PIERCEFIELD, IN THE COUNTY OF ST. LAWRENCE,  THE  PERSONS
    5  PERFORMING  THE  FUNCTIONS  OF TOWN JUSTICE NEED NOT BE ELECTORS OF SUCH
    6  TOWN. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PERSONS PERFORMING THE  FUNCTIONS  OF  TOWN
    7  JUSTICE  IN  ANY OTHER TOWN SHALL BE ELECTORS OF SUCH TOWN UNLESS OTHER-
    8  WISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
    9    S 2. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding  a  new
   10  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
   11    60.  IN  THE  TOWN  OF PIERCEFIELD, IN THE COUNTY OF ST. LAWRENCE, THE
   12  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION REQUIRING A PERSON TO BE A  RESIDENT  OF  THE
   13  POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE FOR WHICH HE
   14  OR SHE SHALL BE CHOSEN OR WITHIN WHICH HIS OR HER OFFICIAL FUNCTIONS ARE
   15  REQUIRED  TO  BE  EXERCISED, SHALL NOT PREVENT A PERSON FROM HOLDING THE
   16  OFFICE OF TOWN JUSTICE OF THE TOWN OF PIERCEFIELD,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH
   17  PERSON  RESIDES  IN ST. LAWRENCE OR AN ADJOINING COUNTY WITHIN THE STATE
   18  OF NEW YORK. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE PERSON PERFORMING THE  FUNCTIONS  OF
   19  TOWN  JUSTICE IN ANY OTHER TOWN SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF SUCH TOWN, UNLESS
   20  OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09392-01-3