Amendment ID: S2800-22

Amendment 22

Residency Requirements

Messrs. Collins and Eldridge move to amend the bill by adding the following section:--

SECTION XX. Section 1. As used in this act, the following words shall have the following meanings:

“Residence,” the actual principal residence of the individual where he or she normally eats and sleeps and maintains his or her normal personal and household effects.

Section 2. Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, any person seeking original appointment to the position of police officer or firefighter in the City of Boston will have a preference if that person has had residence in the City of Boston for three (3) continuous years immediately prior to the date of that person’s respective Civil Service examination. Any person seeking original appointment to the position of police officer or firefighter in the City of Boston will not have a preference if that person has not had residence in the City of Boston for three (3) continuous years prior to the date of that person’s respective Civil Service examination.

Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.