[Adopted 1-22-1990 by L.L.
No. 3-1990]
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Law are hereby amended and superseded in their application to the Town of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 Constable 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 Constable 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 Constable shall perform all those duties that are specifically set
forth in § 39 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.
