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Jun 05, 2012 | reported referred to rules |
May 29, 2012 | referred to election law |
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A10434 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S7466
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Rules
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง4-100, El L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014: A6856, S3285
2015-2016: A4189, S4560, S7072
2017-2018: A5576, S2794
2019-2020: A6093, S546
2021-2022: A7478, S6855
A10434 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10434 I N A S S E M B L Y May 29, 2012 ___________ 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: Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 4-100 of the election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: a. Each election district shall be in compact form and may not be partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, or a county legislative, assembly, senatorial or congressional district. Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous with the boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph, must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character- istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or, with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred fifty] THREE THOUSAND registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election district may be divided for the convenience of the voters. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15965-01-2