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                                  1779

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers  law, in relation to residency
  requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended  by  chapter  200  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  2-a. Neither the provisions of  this  section,  nor  of  any  general,
special  or  local  law,  charter,  code, ordinance, resolution, rule or
regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political  subdi-
vision  or  municipal  corporation  of  the  state for which he shall be
chosen or within which his official functions are required to  be  exer-
cised,  shall  apply to the appointment of a member of the department of
sanitation of any municipality of the state  who  resides  in  a  county
within  the  state  contiguous  to  such  municipality.  A member of the
department of sanitation  of  any  political  subdivision  or  municipal
corporation  [who has five or more years of service] may reside (a) in a
county in which such political subdivision or municipal  corporation  is
located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county in
which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or
(c)  in  a county within the state contiguous to such political subdivi-
sion or municipal corporation; or (d) in a county within the state which
is not more than fifteen miles from such political subdivision or munic-
ipal corporation.
  S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 30 of the public officers law, as  sepa-
rately  amended  by chapters 200 and 209 of the laws of 2006, is amended
to read as follows:
  5. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special
or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or  regulation,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00684-01-5
              

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creating  a  vacancy  in  a  local  office of a political subdivision or
municipal corporation if the incumbent thereof ceases to be  a  resident
of  such  political subdivision or municipal corporation, shall apply in
the  case of a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid fire depart-
ment, who, for purposes of this section shall include  persons  employed
as  fire  alarm  dispatchers,  or  in the case of a person employed in a
department of correction in the correction  service  of  the  classified
civil  service,  or in the case of a member of the department of sanita-
tion of any political subdivision or municipal corporation [who has five
or more years of service,] or in the case  of  officers  and  inspectors
employed  in  a department of health of a city of over one million popu-
lation who resides (a) in the county in which said city is  located;  or
(b)  in a county within the state contiguous to the county in which said
city is located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous to  such
city; or (d) in a county within the state which is not more than fifteen
miles  from said city; or (e) in a county within the state contiguous to
a county described in item (d) hereof where  the  former  is  less  than
thirty  miles  from such political subdivision or municipal corporation,
measured from their respective nearest boundary lines.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.