A 1173: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1173 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations 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 76 to read as follows: 3 76. 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 such 10 person's employment as a member of such police force; provided however, 11 that nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to 12 affect any person who entered such city service as a police officer 13 prior to thirty 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. LBD02966-01-5