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                                  4767

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 15, 2015
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  removing  petitioning
  for Long Island power authority trustees

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 6-158  of  the  election  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  517  of  the  laws  of 1986, is amended to read as
follows:
  9. A petition for an independent nomination for an office to be filled
at the time of a general election shall be filed not earlier than twelve
weeks and not later than eleven weeks preceding such election.  A  peti-
tion  for  an  independent  nomination  for  an office to be filled at a
special election shall be filed not later than twelve days following the
issuance of a proclamation of such election. [A petition for trustee  of
the  Long  Island  Power Authority shall be filed not earlier than seven
weeks and not later than six weeks preceding the day of the election  of
such trustees.]
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 6-142 of the election law, as amended by
chapter 79 of the laws of 1992 and paragraph (d-1) as amended by chapter
418 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
  2. An independent nominating petition for the nomination of candidates
for  an  office  to  be filled by the voters of any other political unit
must be signed by voters numbering five per centum of the  total  number
of  votes  cast  for governor at the last gubernatorial election in such
unit, excluding blank and void votes, except that not  more  than  three
thousand  five  hundred signatures shall be required upon any such peti-
tion for any office to be filled in any  political  subdivision  of  the
state wholly outside the city of New York, and not more than the follow-
ing  numbers  of signatures shall be required upon any such petition for
the following public offices respectively:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (a) for any office to be filled  in  any  county  or  portion  thereof
outside the city of New York, one thousand five hundred;
  (b)  for  any office to be filled by all the voters of the city of New
York, seven thousand five hundred;
  (b-1) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any  two  coun-
ties in such city, four thousand;
  (c)  for  any  office  to be filled by all the voters of any county or
borough in such city, four thousand;
  (d) for any office to be filled by all the  voters  of  any  municipal
court district, three thousand signatures;
  (d-1)  for  any office to be filled in the city of New York by all the
voters of any city council district, two thousand seven hundred;
  (e) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any congressional
district, three thousand five hundred;
  (f) for any office to be filled by all the voters of any state senato-
rial district, three thousand;
  (g) for any office to be filled by  all  the  voters  of  an  assembly
district, one thousand five hundred;
  (h)  [for  the  office  of trustee of the Long Island Power Authority,
five hundred;
  (i)] for any office to be filled by the voters of any political subdi-
vision contained within another political subdivision except  as  herein
otherwise  provided, not to exceed the number of signatures required for
the larger subdivision.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.