[HISTORY: Adopted by the Legislature of the County of Putnam
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 2-3-2009 by L.L. No. 4-2009]
A.
This Legislature determines that the County of Putnam has enacted
Local Law No. 14 of 2008, to require companies doing business with
the County to certify their compliance with federal law with respect
to the lawful hiring of employees. This Legislature determines that
document fraud may exist during the application process for employment
and further determines that the County of Putnam should protect residents
from document fraud in the hiring of County employees.
B.
This Legislature finds that the United States Department of Homeland
Security and the Social Security Administration have established an
electronic system called "E-Verify" to assist employers in verifying
the employment authorization of all their newly hired employees. Under
this system, employers can check the I-9 information supplied by employees
to insure that an employee's name, social security number, date
of birth and citizenship status match government records.
C.
This Legislature determines that it would be prudent to institute
a new program requiring the County Department of Personnel to utilize
the "E-Verify" program.
D.
Therefore, the purpose of this article is to require the County Department
of Personnel to utilize the "E-Verify" program and maintain records
documenting its use of E-Verify for every County employee hired after
the effective date of this article.
A.
The Department of Personnel shall use the E-Verify Internet-based
system, operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership
with the Social Security Administration (SSA), to verify the employment
authorization of newly hired County employees, and maintain records
documenting its use of E-Verify for each employee and shall maintain
such record in each employee's personnel file.
B.
An employee is hereby defined as any person, elected or appointed,
competitive class or management, who receives a salary from the County
of Putnam.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or
part of this article or the application thereof to any person, individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, entity, or circumstance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such order or judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the
remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part of this article,
or in its application to the person, individual, corporation, firm,
partnership, entity, or circumstance directly involved in the controversy
in which such order or judgment shall be rendered.
This Legislature, being the State Environmental Quality Review
Act (SEQRA) lead agency, hereby finds and determines that this article
constitutes a Type II action pursuant to Section 617.5(c)(20), (21),
and/or (27) of Title 6 of the New York Code of Rules and Regulations
(6 NYCRR) and within the meaning of Section 8-0109(2) of the New York
Environmental Conservation Law as a promulgation of regulations, rules,
policies, procedures, and legislative decisions in connection with
continuing agency administration, management and information collection.
