This article is enacted pursuant to the authority of Chapter
365 of the Laws of 1976 which added a new Subparagraph (3) to Paragraph
d of Subdivision 1 of § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law, authorizing
a town to adopt a local law which may amend or supersede in its application
to it, any provision of the Town Law relating to the property, affairs
and government of the town or in relation to any of the other enumerated
subject matters in such § 10, unless there is a state legislative
restriction on such amendment or supersession.
Subdivision 1 of § 23 of the Town Law is hereby superseded
in its application to the Town of Deerpark to provide that the Deputy
Town Clerk of the Town of Deerpark at the time of his or her appointment(s)
and throughout the term(s) of office need not be an elector of the
Town of Deerpark so long as he or she is a resident of the County
of Orange of the State of New York adjacent to the Town of Deerpark.