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Assembly Bill A7587

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division and alteration of election districts by a board of elections

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2017-A7587 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4-100, El L

2017-A7587 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division and alteration of election districts by a board of elections; increases the number of registrants an election district may include from 1,150 to 2,000 registrants.

2017-A7587 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7587
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to the creation, consol-
   idation, division and alteration of election districts by a  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] TWO THOUSAND
 registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
 district may be divided for the convenience of the voters AFTER  CONSUL-
 TATION WITH THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO REPRESENT SAID DISTRICTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10871-01-7

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