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Law are hereby amended and superseded in their application to the Town of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 Dog Control 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 Dog Control 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 Dog Control Officer shall perform all those duties that are specifically
set forth in § 114 of the Agriculture and Markets Law and such other
duties compatible with his office that may be assigned to him by the Town
Board of the Town of Chenango.