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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to registration to vote
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 84 of the town law, as amended by
 chapter 281 of the laws of 1998, is amended and a new subdivision  7  is
 added to read as follows:
   5.  In  order  to  assist boards of registration in the preparation of
 their registers, the town clerk, prior to  the  first  meeting  of  such
 boards  of registration, shall obtain from the board of elections of the
 county in which such town is located, the list of names and addresses of
 all voters registered with such board of  elections  on  or  before  the
 [twenty-third]  TENTH  day  before such special election. The town clerk
 shall deliver the names and addresses of qualified voters to the  appro-
 priate board or boards of registration on or before the first meeting of
 such  board or boards. At the first and subsequent meetings of the board
 of registration for each voting place designated by the town  board  for
 such  special  town  election, such board of registration shall place on
 the register described in subdivision four hereof the names of all qual-
 ified voters and all other qualified voters who personally  appear,  and
 those  military voters and such other voters who are absent by reason of
 confining illness or physical disability or whose duties, occupation  or
 business  required  them  to be outside of the state of New York, having
 the qualifications of voters prescribed in this  section  and  who  have
 made  application  for absentee ballots as certified to them by the town
 clerk.
   7. IN THE EVENT A TOWN BOARD DOES NOT ELECT TO PROVIDE PERSONAL REGIS-
 TRATION FOR A SPECIAL TOWN ELECTION, NO PERSON SHALL BE ENTITLED TO VOTE
 UNLESS THEY ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE WITH THE BOARD OF  ELECTIONS  ON  THE
 TENTH DAY BEFORE SUCH ELECTION.
   § 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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