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                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 26, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK, COLTON, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M. of A. GALEF, GOTTFRIED, PAULIN -- read once  and  referred  to  the
  Committee on Election Law

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public officers law, in relation to the time for
  setting a special election

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 42 of the public officers law, as
amended by chapter 105 of the laws  of  1943,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3. Upon the failure to elect to any office, except that of governor or
lieutenant-governor,  at  a  general  or special election, at which such
office is authorized to be filled, or upon the death or disqualification
of a person elected to office before the commencement  of  his  official
term,  or  upon the occurrence of a vacancy in any elective office which
cannot be filled by appointment for a period extending to or beyond  the
next  general  election  at  which  a person may be elected thereto, the
governor may in his discretion make proclamation of a  special  election
to  fill  such  office,  specifying  the district or county in which the
election is to be held, and the day thereof, which  shall  be  not  less
than  [thirty]  FIFTY  nor more than [forty] SIXTY days from the date of
the proclamation.
  S 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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