Bill Text: NY S05853 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes the Westchester county board of elections to merge any election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing election district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-26 - NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - WITHDRAWN [S05853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S05853-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5853--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 11, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  STEWART-COUSINS,  KLEIN -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to the consolidation of
         certain election districts 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.  Section  4-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS  SECTION
    4  TO THE CONTRARY, THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER MAY
    5  MERGE  ANY  ELECTION DISTRICT WITH FIFTY OR FEWER REGISTERED VOTERS INTO
    6  AN EXISTING ELECTION DISTRICT SO LONG AS BOTH SUCH DISTRICTS ARE  WITHIN
    7  THE  SAME  WARD, TOWN, CITY OR VILLAGE, AND THE SAME COUNTY LEGISLATIVE,
    8  ASSEMBLY, SENATORIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. FURTHERMORE, NO CONSOL-
    9  IDATED ELECTION DISTRICT CREATED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL
   10  EXCEED  THE  TOTAL NUMBER OF REGISTERED VOTERS, EXCLUDING REGISTRANTS IN
   11  INACTIVE STATUS, EXCEED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER PERMITTED BY THIS SECTION.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11926-03-9
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