§ 151. Qualifications. No person shall be eligible to appointment or
reappointment to such police department, nor continue as a member
thereof, who shall not be a citizen of the United States, who has been
convicted of a felony, who shall be unable to read and write
understandingly the English language or who shall not reside within the
state of New York and in any town or village in the county in which such
town is situated at the time of his or her appointment.