NY State Legislature· S1678-2025Signed by Governor

Permits the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by a non-resident, the official text

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                                   1678
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 
 AN ACT to authorize the board of trustees of the village of  East  Syra-
   cuse  to  permit  that  the office of village justice and/or associate
   justice may be held by a non-resident, provided that  they  reside  in
   the town of Dewitt
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions  of  section  3-300  of  the
 village  law and section 3 of the public officers law requiring a person
 to be a resident of the political subdivision or  municipal  corporation
 of  the state for which such person shall be chosen or within which such
 person's official functions are required to be  exercised,  the  village
 board  of  trustees of the incorporated village of East Syracuse, in the
 county of Onondaga, is hereby authorized to provide, by resolution, that
 the office of village justice and/or associate justice may be held by  a
 person  who is not a resident of such village, provided that such person
 resides within the town of Dewitt, in the county of Onondaga.  Provided,
 however,  the  person performing the functions of village justice and/or
 associate justice in any other village  shall  be  a  resident  of  such
 village, unless otherwise provided by an act of the state legislature.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03905-02-5

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