Senate Bill S1648

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires a person to be a resident of the local subdivision for which such person seeks office at the time of filing, designating or nominating petitions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, Pub Off L; add §§6-170 & 6-214, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5176
2011-2012: S1320
2013-2014: S429
2017-2018: S4180

2015-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a person to be a resident of the local subdivision for which such person seeks office at the time of filing designating or nominating petitions.

2015-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1648

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
  ment Operations

AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law  and  the  election  law,  in
  relation  to  residency requirement for local government elected offi-
  cials

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
amended by chapter 251 of the laws  of  2014,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall not,
at  the time he or she shall be chosen thereto, have attained the age of
eighteen years, except that in the case of youth boards,  youth  commis-
sions,  recreation  commissions,  or community boards in the city of New
York only, members of such boards or commissions may be under the age of
eighteen years, but must have attained the age of sixteen  years  on  or
before  appointment  to  such  youth board, youth commission, recreation
commission, or community board in the city of New York, be a citizen  of
the United States, a resident of the state, and if it be a local office,
BE  a  resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of
the state for which he or she shall be chosen, or within which the elec-
tors electing him or her reside, or within which  his  or  her  official
functions  are  required  to be exercised AT THE TIME HE OR SHE SHALL BE
OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED OR NOMINATED, or who shall have been or  shall  be
convicted  of  a  violation  of  the  selective  draft act of the United
States, enacted May eighteenth, nineteen hundred seventeen, or the  acts
amendatory or supplemental thereto, or of the federal selective training
and service act of nineteen hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof
or supplemental thereto.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04395-03-5

              

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