Opn. No.

JOHN J. McMANUS Town Attorney, Goshen

We acknowledge receipt of your letter inquiring whether the office of Town Building and Zoning Inspector is vacant because of a failure of that officer to take and file the Constitutional oath of office. You mention in your letter an opinion which you had rendered on the subject but you did not enclose a copy of the opinion with your letter.

It appears from your letter that the Town Building and Zoning Inspector was appointed in 1975 and has never filed the oath of office

Under the provisions of Public Officers Law § 30, subdivision 1, paragraph (h) a public…