Assembly Bill A11657

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  11657

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              July 6, 2010
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Stirpe) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  prohibiting  political
  candidates  from being nominated by more than one party for any public
  office

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  6-122 of the election law, as amended by chapter
511 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
  S 6-122.  Designation  or  nomination;  eligibility,  restrictions.  A
person shall not be designated or nominated for a public office or party
position who (1) is not a citizen of the state of New York; (2) is inel-
igible  to  be  elected  to  such office or position; [or] (3) [who,] if
elected will not at the time of commencement of the term of such  office
or position, meet the constitutional or statutory qualifications thereof
or, with respect to judicial office, [who] will not meet such qualifica-
tions within thirty days of the commencement of the term of such office;
OR  (4)  IF SUCH NOMINATION IS FOR A PUBLIC OFFICE, HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED
ANOTHER PARTY'S NOMINATION FOR SUCH PUBLIC OFFICE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17726-02-0