Bill Text: NY S00305 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00305 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00305-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           305

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the  creation,  consol-
          idation,  division,  and alteration of election districts by the board
          of elections in the city of New York

          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  registrants
    17  (excluding  registrants  in  inactive status), except in the city of New
    18  York where an election district shall not contain more than  four  thou-
    19  sand  registrants  (excluding  registrants  in inactive status), but any
    20  election district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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