New York S 6052: Relates to residency requirements for paid firefighters in a city with a population of one million or more

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Relates to residency requirements for paid firefighters in a city with a population of one million or more; requires any person appointed as a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid fire department of a city with a population of one million or more to become a resident of any political subdivision or municipal corporation within such city within one year of their appointment and to continue to reside within any such political subdivision or municipal corporation.

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6052

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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, in relation to residency
 requirements for paid firefighters in a city with a population of one
 million or more

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3 of the public officers law, as
 2 amended by chapter 985 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 4. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision nine of this section,
 5 persons heretofore or hereafter employed in the paid fire department of
 6 a city, town, village or fire district shall not be deemed to be holding
 7 a civil office or a local office within the meaning of this section and
 8 the provisions of this section shall not apply to such persons. [The]
 9 Except within a city with a population of one million or more,
 10 provisions of any general, special or local law, city or village char-
 11 ter, code or ordinance, or any rule or regulation requiring a person to
 12 be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of
 13 the state for which [he] such person shall be chosen or within which
 14 [his] their official functions are required to be exercised shall not
 15 apply to the appointment or continuance in office of any such person so
 16 employed, if such person resides in the county, or one of the counties,
 17 in which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located.
 18 § 2. Subdivision 9 of section 3 of the public officers law, as amended
 19 by chapter 209 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 20 9. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special
 21 or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,
 22 requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or
 23 municipal corporation of the state for which [he or she] such person

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10596-01-5

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 1 shall be chosen or within which [his or her] their official functions
 2 are required to be exercised, shall apply to the appointment of a paid
 3 member of the uniformed force of a paid fire department outside of a
 4 city with a population of one million or more, who, for purposes of this
 5 section shall include persons employed as fire alarm dispatchers, or to
 6 the appointment of any person employed in a department of correction in
 7 the correction service classification of the classified civil service,
 8 or to the appointment of officers and inspectors who are employees of a
 9 department of health of any city of over one million population who
 10 resides (a) in the county in which such city is located; or (b) in a
 11 county within the state contiguous to the county in which said city is
 12 located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous to such city; or
 13 (d) in a county within the state which is not more than fifteen miles
 14 from said city.
 15 § 3. Subdivision 19 of se