The County Legislature hereby finds that in order to assure
an adequate pool of qualified applicants for the offices of Correction
Officer and Assistant District Attorney within the Tompkins County
Sheriff's Office and Tompkins County District Attorney's
Office, and to retain such applicants if hired, it is necessary and
advisable that individuals holding said positions within the County
of Tompkins be permitted to reside either within the County of Tompkins
or any other county in New York State. Therefore, the Tompkins County
Legislature hereby adopts the following exemption from any provision
of the New York State Public Officers Law imposing more restrictive
residency qualification for holding the office of Correction Officer
or Assistant District Attorney with the County of Tompkins.
In the County of Tompkins, the provisions of Section 3(1) of
the Public Officers Law requiring a person to be a resident of the
political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which
such person shall be chosen or within which such person's official
functions are required to be exercised shall not prevent a person
from holding the office of Correction Officer or Assistant District
Attorney within the Tompkins County Sheriff's Office or Tompkins
County District Attorney's Office; provided, however, that such
person performing the duties and functions of Corrections Officer
or Assistant District Attorney resides in Tompkins County or any county
within New York State. Any contrary provision of the Public Offices
Law is hereby superseded by this chapter.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or
part of this chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid, such judgment shall not impair or invalidate the remainder
hereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,
paragraph, or section directly involved in the controversy in which
judgment shall have been rendered.