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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMONE,  FORREST, GALLAGHER, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
   MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Governmental
   Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public officers law, in relation to deleting the
   citizenship requirement for holding civil office

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
 amended by chapter 251 of the laws  of  2014,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
 at  the time [he or she] THEY shall be chosen thereto, have attained the
 age of eighteen years, except that in the case of  youth  boards,  youth
 commissions,  recreation commissions, or community boards in the city of
 New York only, members of such boards or commissions may  be  under  the
 age  of  eighteen years, but must have attained the age of sixteen years
 on or before appointment to such youth board, youth  commission,  recre-
 ation  commission,  or  community  board  in the city of New York, be [a
 citizen of the United States,] a resident of the state, and if it  be  a
 local  office,  a  resident  of  the  political subdivision or municipal
 corporation of the state for which [he or she] THEY shall be chosen,  or
 within  which  the electors electing [him or her] THEM reside, or within
 which [his or her] THEIR official functions are  required  to  be  exer-
 cised,  or  who  shall have been or shall be convicted of a violation of
 the selective draft act of the United States,  enacted  May  eighteenth,
 nineteen hundred seventeen, or the acts amendatory or supplemental ther-
 eto,  or  of  the federal selective training and service act of nineteen
 hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof  or  supplemental  thereto.
 WHERE  ANY  OTHER  LAW IMPOSES ADDITIONAL CRITERIA FOR HOLDING ANY CIVIL
 OFFICE, THOSE CRITERIA SHALL APPLY TO THAT OFFICE  IN  ADDITION  TO  THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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