Legal Opinion
Opn. No.
New York Attorney General Reports
Decided June 8, 1977Published
1Opinion of the Court
HON. STEPHEN J. WING Corporation Counsel, Poughkeepsie
This is in response to your recent request for an opinion of the Attorney General wherein you ask whether or not a member of the Common Council of the City of Poughkeepsie may be appointed to the Poughkeepsie Housing Authority in view of the language contained in the Charter of the City of Poughkeepsie, § 36, which provides, in part, as follows:
"* * * No member of the common council shall be eligible to be appointed to any office outside the council, by the city manager, mayor or common council, during the term for which he shall have been…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Matter of Commissioners of Central ParkNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Buffalo Cemetery Assn. v. . City of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1889
- Lewis v. City of SyracuseAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- People ex rel. Young v. GulvinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
- People ex rel. Young v. GulvinNew York Supreme Court · 1914