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Assembly Bill A2109

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the local registration of voters by boards of election; repealer

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2009-A2109 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add ยง5-202, El L

2009-A2109 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the local registration of voters by boards of election between sixty and thirty days before a general election; requires boards to adopt resolutions to conduct registration by local board of inspectors, to provide notice as to date, time and place, and to publish the same; and prohibits such registration on religious or legal holidays.

2009-A2109 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2109

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BENJAMIN, SCHROEDER -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  providing  for  local
  registration  of  voters by boards of elections; and repealing certain
  provisions of such law relating thereto

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

  Section  1.  Section  5-202  of the election law is REPEALED and a new
section 5-202 is added to read as follows:
  S 5-202. LOCAL REGISTRATION; PROVISION FOR. 1. ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS,
AND IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS IN THE CITY  OF  NEW
YORK,  MAY BY RESOLUTION ADOPTED NOT LATER THAN THE FIRST OF JULY IN ANY
YEAR, PROVIDE THAT EITHER A CENTRAL OR LOCAL BOARD OF  INSPECTORS  SHALL
MEET  FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  TAKING  THE REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. IN SUCH
RESOLUTION, THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL ESTABLISH THE  DATE  OR  DATES,
TIME  OR TIMES, AND PLACE OR PLACES FOR CONDUCTING SUCH MEETING OR MEET-
INGS, WHICH SHALL BE UNIFORM THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND IN  THE  CITY  OF
NEW YORK, THROUGHOUT SUCH CITY.
  2.  LOCAL  REGISTRATION  CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
SECTION, SHALL ALWAYS BE RECEIVED EITHER BY TWO EMPLOYEES OF  THE  BOARD
OF  ELECTIONS SERVING AS A CENTRAL BOARD OF INSPECTORS OR TWO MEMBERS OF
A LOCAL BOARD OF INSPECTORS; IN  EACH  INSTANCE,  REPRESENTING  THE  TWO
POLITICAL  PARTIES,  AS  PROVIDED FOR IN THIS CHAPTER THE APPOINTMENT OF
INSPECTORS, AS DIRECTED BY RESOLUTION OF SUCH BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
  3. IF A BOARD OF ELECTIONS DETERMINES PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
THIS SECTION, TO CONDUCT LOCAL REGISTRATION, IT SHALL ESTABLISH THE DATE
OR  DATES  TO CONDUCT SUCH REGISTRATION, WHICH SHALL NOT BE EARLIER THAN
SIXTY DAYS BEFORE THE GENERAL ELECTION OR LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS  BEFORE
THE  GENERAL  ELECTION.  NO SUCH LOCAL REGISTRATION SHALL BE HELD ON THE
RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS OF YOM KIPPUR, ROSH HASHANAH, SIMCHAS TORAH,  SHIMINI
ATZERETH OR SUCCOTH, OR THE LEGAL HOLIDAY, COLUMBUS DAY.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05350-01-9

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