N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 67.03: Residents

§ 67.03 Residents.

(a) For the purposes of this article any person who resides in the

state continuously for one year, and any person under the age of sixteen

or any person with a developmental disability whose parents or persons

having legal custody of him have resided in the state continuously for

one year, shall be considered a state resident. Residence so acquired

continues until the resident has remained away from the state for one

year.

(b) No person shall lose state residence through absence from the

state while serving in or attached to the armed forces of the United

States or the United States Merchant Marine and no member of the family

of any such person shall lose state residence through absence from the

state while living with or near such person during the period of

service.

(c) The continuous residence required to become a resident does not

include any period during which a person was residing on a military

reservation, but periods of residence immediately before and after the

period of residence on a military reservation, if equaling one year,

shall satisfy the required period of continuous residence.