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A 448: Authorizes the city of Rochester to adopt a local law requiring a member of the police force in such city to be a resident of Rochester subsequent to the effective date of such local law.
What A 448 does, verified January 8, 2026
The bill aims to amend the Public Officers Law to allow the city of Rochester to enact a local law requiring police officers to be residents of Rochester. This law would take effect immediately and would not affect police officers who have been appointed before 30 days after the law is enacted. The law would give the city of Rochester the authority to require police officers to be residents of the city during their employment, except for those who were already appointed before the law takes effect.
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5GovernorPending
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Last action: referred to governmental operations (2026-01-07)Alert me
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| Jan. 08, 2025 | referred to governmental operations |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 281 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 448 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, MEEKS -- 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 Rochester to adopt a local law requiring police officers to be residents of Rochester 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 Rochester, 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 their 10 employment as a member of such police force; provided however, that 11 nothing in this subdivision shall authorize such local law to affect any 12 person who entered such city service as a police officer prior to thirty 13 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. LBD02556-01-5
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