What's happening
This bill allows New York City sanitation workers with at least two years of service to live in certain nearby counties.
Why it matters
Expands the potential workforce for NYC Sanitation by allowing experienced workers (with at least two years of service) to live outside city limits in certain nearby counties. , making it easier to recruit and retain employees who may prefer or need to live outside the city due to affordability or personal reasons.
Addresses workforce stability and retention by lowering the in-service residency requirement to two years (from five) for NYC sanitation workers. , which could help reduce turnover and staffing shortages, especially given the demanding nature of sanitation work.
May have broader impacts on labor mobility and housing choices for public employees. , signaling a shift away from strict residency requirements for essential city workers, and potentially setting a precedent for other municipal departments or cities considering similar measures.
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Loosen Sanitation Residency Rules
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History
- Signed chap.220
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 52–10
- 3rd reading cal.613
- Substituted for S5438A
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.99
- Rules report cal.99
- Reported
Show 5 earlier actions
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 7070a
- Amend and recommit to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Ease Sanitation Worker Residency Rules
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Martin J. Golden
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7070--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE, DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to residency requirements for members of municipal departments of sanitation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 3 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
2-a. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he shall be chosen or within which his official functions are required to be exercised, shall apply to the appointment of a member of the department of sanitation of any municipality of the state who resides in a county within the state contiguous to such municipality. A member of the department of sanitation of any political subdivision or municipal corporation who has five or more years of service or in the case of a member of the department of sanitation in a city with a population of one million or more who has two or more years of service to such city may reside (a) in a county in which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county in which such political subdivision or municipal corporation is located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous to such political subdivision or municipal corporation; or (d) in a county within the state which is not more than fifteen miles from such political subdivision or municipal corporation.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 2. Subdivision 5 of section 30 of the public officers law, as separately amended by chapters 200 and 209 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
5. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general, special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, creating a vacancy in a local office of a political subdivision or municipal corporation if the incumbent thereof ceases to be a resident of such political subdivision or municipal corporation, shall apply in the case of a paid member of the uniformed force of a paid fire department, who, for purposes of this section shall include persons employed as fire alarm dispatchers, or in the case of a person employed in a department of correction in the correction service of the classified civil service, or in the case of a member of the department of sanitation of any political subdivision or municipal corporation who has five or more years of service, or in the case of officers and inspectors employed in a department of health of a city of over one million population, or in the case of a member of the department of sanitation in a city with a population of one million or more who has two or more years of service to such city who resides (a) in the county in which said city is located; or (b) in a county within the state contiguous to the county in which said city is located; or (c) in a county within the state contiguous to such city; or (d) in a county within the state which is not more than fifteen miles from said city; or (e) in a county within the state contiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the former is less than thirty miles from such political subdivision or municipal corporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary lines.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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