§ 3. Qualifications for holding office. 1. No person shall be capable\nof holding a civil office who shall not, at the time he or she shall be\nchosen thereto, have attained the age of eighteen years, except that in\nthe case of youth boards, youth commissions, recreation commissions, or\ncommunity boards in the city of New York only, members of such boards or\ncommissions may be under the age of eighteen years, but must have\nattained the age of sixteen years on or before appointment to such youth\nboard, youth commission, recreation commission, or community board in\nthe city of New York, be a citizen of the United States, a resident of\nthe state, and if it be a local office, a resident of the political\nsubdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or she\nshall be chosen, or within which the electors electing him or her\nreside, or within which his or her official functions are required to be\nexercised, or who shall have been or shall be convicted of a violation\nof the selective draft act of the United States, enacted May eighteenth,\nnineteen hundred seventeen, or the acts amendatory or supplemental\nthereto, or of the federal selective training and service act of\nnineteen hundred forty or the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental\nthereto.\n 1-a. (i) No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who\nshall stand convicted of a felony defined in article two hundred or four\nhundred ninety-six or section 195.20 of the penal law.\n (ii) Any individual who stands convicted of a misdemeanor defined in\narticle two hundred, article four hundred ninety-six or section 195.00\nof the penal law may not hold civil office for a period of five years\nfrom the date of conviction, provided that in the event such conviction\nis the result of a plea agreement resulting in a plea to such charge in\nlieu of a plea or conviction of a felony defined in section 195.20,\narticle two hundred or article four hundred ninety-six of the penal law,\nall parties to such agreement may agree that the period of such bar may\nbe for a period of up to ten years from the date of conviction.\n 2. Neither the provisions of this section or of any general, special\nor local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation,\nrequiring a person to be a resident of the political subdivision or\nmunicipal corporation of the state for which he shall be chosen or\nwithin which his official functions are required to be exercised, shall\napply to the appointment of a person as a member of the police force of\nany political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state if such\nperson resides (a) in the county in which such political subdivision or\nmunicipal corporation is located; or (b) in a county within the state\ncontiguous to the county in which such political subdivision or\nmunicipal corporation is located; or (c) in a county within the state\ncontiguous to such political subdivision or municipal corporation; or\n(d) in a county within the state contiguous to a county described in\nitem (c) hereof where the former is less than fifteen miles from such\npolitical subdivision or municipal corporation, measured from their\nrespective nearest boundary lines; or (e) in a county within the state\ncontiguous to a county described in item (d) hereof where the former is\nless than thirty miles from such political subdivision or municipal\ncorporation, measured from their respective nearest boundary lines.\n 2-a. Neither the provisions of this section, nor of any general,\nspecial or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or\nregulation, requiring a person to be a resident of the political\nsubdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he shall be\nchosen or within which his official functions are required to be\nexercised, shall apply to the appointment of a member of the department\nof sanitation of any municipality of the state who resides in a county\nwithin the state contiguous to such
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