Bill Text: NY S08694 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring a member of the police force in such city to be a resident of Buffalo subsequent to the effective date of such local law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08694 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08694-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8694 IN SENATE July 8, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to authorizing the city of Buffalo to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be residents of Buffalo 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 70 to read as follows: 3 70. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section, 4 or any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code, 5 ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, the city of 6 Buffalo, as of the effective date of this subdivision, shall have the 7 authority to enact a local law subsequent to the effective date of this 8 subdivision requiring any person who is appointed as a member of the 9 police force of such city to be a resident of such a city during his or 10 her employment as a member of such police force; provided however, that 11 nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to affect any 12 person who entered such city service as a police officer prior to thirty 13 days subsequent to the effective date of such local law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16701-01-0