Opn. No.

Hon. Frank J. Ryan Town Attorney, Town of Cortlandt

This is in reply to your letter in which you seek this office's opinion as to whether a Deputy Town Attorney must be a resident of the Town in which he serves. You state that the senior Deputy Town Attorney of the Town of Cortlandt in Westchester County desires to move his residence from the Town of Cortlandt to an adjoining town in Putnam County.

The Town Board of every town in the State of New York is authorized by section 20, subd 2, par (a), of the Town Law to establish the office of Town Attorney and to establish the salary for such…