Bill Text: NY S08540 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the qualifications for holding the office of assistant district attorney in the county of Oneida.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.334 [S08540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08540-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8540

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 10, 2022
                                       ___________

        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  the  qualifica-
          tion  for  holding  the  office  of assistant district attorney in the
          county of Oneida

          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 72 to read as follows:
     3    72.  In the county of Oneida, the provisions of this section requiring
     4  a person to be a resident of  the  political  subdivision  or  municipal
     5  corporation  of  the state for which he or she shall be chosen or within
     6  which his or her official functions are required to be exercised,  shall
     7  not  prevent  a  person  from  holding  the office of assistant district
     8  attorney, provided that such person resides in Oneida county  or  in  an
     9  adjoining  county  within the state of New York; provided, however, that
    10  any person performing such functions or holding the office of  assistant
    11  district attorney in any other county shall be a resident of such county
    12  unless  otherwise  provided  by  law. The provisions of this subdivision
    13  shall not apply to any person holding  the  office  of  first  assistant
    14  district  attorney  or  chief assistant district attorney, the holder of
    15  which would assume the duties of the district attorney upon the district
    16  attorney's absence from the  county  or  upon  the  district  attorney's
    17  inability to perform his or her duties.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14960-02-2