This article is enacted pursuant to the authority
of Municipal Home Rule Law § 10, Subdivision 1(ii)a(1),
authorizing towns to adopt a local law which may amend or supersede
any provision of the Town Law in relation to the qualifications of
its officers and employees.
[Amended 1-12-2006 by L.L. No. 1-2006]
Section 23 of the Town Law is hereby amended
and superseded in its application to the Town of Owasco to provide
that the Town Attorney of the Town of Owasco at the time of appointment
and throughout his or her term of office need not be an elector of
the Town of Owasco so long as he or she is a resident of the County
of Cayuga of the State of New York or has an office for the practice
of law in the County of Cayuga of the State of New York. A new sentence
is hereby inserted at the end of § 23 of the Town Law to
read and provide as follows: "The Town Attorney of the Town of Owasco
at the time of appointment and throughout his or her term of office
need not be an elector of the Town of Owasco so long as he or she
is a resident of the County of Cayuga of the State of New York or
has an office for the practice of law in the County of Cayuga of the
State of New York."