Bill Text: NY A06856 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-01 - advanced to third reading cal.606 [A06856 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06856-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6856
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 22, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
         of registrants an election district may contain with the  approval  of
         the county board of elections
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph a of  subdivision  3  of  section  4-100  of  the
    2  election  law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    a. Each election district shall be in compact  form  and  may  not  be
    5  partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
    6  five  thousand  or  more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, or a
    7  county legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional  district.
    8  Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
    9  boundaries,  other  than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
   10  boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this  paragraph,
   11  must  be  streets,  rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
   12  istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person  without
   13  the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
   14  shall  contain  not  more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding
   15  registrants in inactive status) or, with  the  approval  of  the  county
   16  board  of elections, not more than [eleven hundred fifty] THREE THOUSAND
   17  registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
   18  district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08536-01-3