S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9970
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 2, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON -- 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 4 of the laws of 2011, 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 or her
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 or her discretion make proclamation of
a special election to fill such office, specifying the district or coun-
ty in which the election is to be held, and the day thereof, which shall
be not less than [seventy] FIFTY nor more than [eighty] 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.
LBD08674-01-5
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