S 7639: Permits political subdivisions and municipal corporations of the state to set the residency requirements for public officer positions.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7639 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to permitting poli- tical subdivisions and municipal corporations of the state to set the residency requirements for certain positions 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 1-b to read as follows: 3 1-b. Notwithstanding any provisions of this section or of any general, 4 special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or 5 regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdi- 6 vision or municipal corporation of the state for which such person shall 7 be chosen or within which their official functions are required to be 8 exercised, the legislative body of a political subdivision or municipal 9 corporation of the state may by local law, ordinance or resolution, set 10 or waive such residency requirements. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11773-01-5