Bill Text: NY A00349 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to the filing of petitions of designation or nomination in the county of Westchester.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-30 - SIGNED CHAP.439 [A00349 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00349-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to the filing of petitions of designation or nomination in the county of Westchester.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-30 - SIGNED CHAP.439 [A00349 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00349-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 349 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GALEF, ABINANTI, BUCHWALD, PRETLOW, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the filing of papers in the county of Westchester The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1-106 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 700 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. All papers required to be filed pursuant to the provisions of this 5 chapter shall, unless otherwise provided, be filed between the hours of 6 nine A.M. and five P.M. 7 On the last day of filing in the county of Westchester, petitions of 8 designation or nomination shall be filed between the hours of nine A.M. 9 and midnight and such board of elections office shall be open to receive 10 such petitions during the hours herein specified. If the last day for 11 filing shall fall on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the next busi- 12 ness day shall become the last day for filing. All papers sent by mail 13 in an envelope postmarked prior to midnight of the last day of filing 14 shall be deemed timely filed and accepted for filing when received, 15 except that all certificates and petitions of designation or nomination, 16 certificates of acceptance or declination of such designations and nomi- 17 nations, certificates of substitution for such designations or nomi- 18 nations and objections and specifications of objections to such certif- 19 icates and petitions required to be filed with the board of elections of 20 the city of New York must be actually received by such city board of 21 elections on or before the last day to file any such petition, certif- 22 icate or objection and such office shall be open for the receipt of such 23 petitions, certificates and objections until midnight on the last day to 24 file any such petition, certificate or objection. Failure of the post EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03711-01-9A. 349 2 1 office or any other person or entity to deliver any such petition, 2 certificate or objection to such city board of elections on or before 3 such last day shall be a fatal defect. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.