Relates to restricting election day duties of board of elections employees in the city of New York running for elected party positions; provides that no board of elections employee in the city of New York shall engage in any election day operations or management within any assembly district in which he or she is also a candidate for an elected party position.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
April 22, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to restricting election
day duties of board of elections employees in the city of New York
running for elected party positions
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is amended to read as
follows:
§ 3-300. Board employees; appointment. 1. Every board of elections
shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
nicians, custodians and other employees, fix their number, prescribe
their duties, fix their titles and rank and establish their salaries
within the amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body
and shall secure in the appointment of employees of the board of
elections equal representation of the major political parties. Every
commissioner in each board of elections except for commissioners of the
board of elections of the city of New York, may approve and at pleasure
remove a deputy, establish his title and prescribe his duties.
2. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an
executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
be to supervise the operations of the board of elections under the
supervision of such board. NO BOARD OF ELECTIONS EMPLOYEE IN THE CITY OF
NEW YORK SHALL ENGAGE IN ANY ELECTION DAY OPERATIONS OR MANAGEMENT WITH-
IN ANY ASSEMBLY DISTRICT IN WHICH HE OR SHE IS ALSO A CANDIDATE FOR AN
ELECTED PARTY POSITION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13521-01-9
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