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SECTION 3-504
Suffolk county; board of elections, special provisions
Election (ELN) CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 3, TITLE 5
§ 3-504. Suffolk county; board of elections, special provisions. 1.
All the provisions of this article, when not inconsistent with this
section, shall apply to the county of Suffolk.

2. At least thirty days before the first day of January of any year in
which a commissioner of elections is to be appointed or within thirty
days after a vacancy occurs in the office of commissioner of elections,
the chairman of the appropriate party county committee shall file with
the clerk of the county legislative body a certificate naming the person
whom he is recommending for appointment as such commissioner of
elections. The certificate shall be in the form and contain the
information prescribed by the state board of elections.

3. All petitions and certificates of nomination or designation, or of
declination thereof, for an election to which this section applies, and
all statements of receipts and expenditures required to be filed with
any officer of Suffolk county, or political subdivision therein shall be
filed with the board of elections.

4. Inspectors of election shall be appointed in odd-numbered years for
a term of two years, except that an inspector appointed to fill a
vacancy, shall hold office for the unexpired term of his predecessor.