This article is enacted pursuant to the authority of Chapter 365 of
the Laws of 1986, which added a new Subparagraph (3) to Paragraph d of Subdivision
1 of § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law authorizing towns to adopt
a local law which may amend or supersede any provision of the Town Law or
Public Officers Law in relation to the property, affairs or government of
the Town or in relation to any other enumerated subject matters in such § 10,
unless there is a state legislative restriction on such amendment or supersession.
Section 23 of the Town Law and § 3 of the Public Officers
Law are hereby amended and superseded in their application to the Town of
Chenango to provide that the Building Inspector/Ordinance Enforcement Officer
of the Town of Chenango at the time of his appointment and throughout his
term of office need not be an elector of the Town of Chenango so long as he
is a resident of the County of Broome and 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 office of Building Inspector/Ordinance Enforcement
Officer of the Town of Chenango at the time of his appointment and throughout
his term need not be an elector of the Town of Chenango so long as he is a
resident of the County of Broome and the State of New York."
The Building Inspector/Ordinance Enforcement Officer shall perform all
those duties that are specifically set forth in § 138 of the Town
Law and such other duties compatible with his office that may be assigned
to him by the Town Board of the Town of Chenango.