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SECTION 4-102
Maps; congressional, senatorial, assembly and election districts
Election (ELN) CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE 4
§ 4-102. Maps; congressional, senatorial, assembly and election
districts. 1. The state board of elections, at the expense of the state,
shall publish maps showing the county or counties contained in each of
the congressional districts, senatorial districts and assembly districts
of the state.

2. Where a portion of a county is contained in any congressional,
senatorial or assembly district, the state board shall publish a map
showing the portion of such county contained in each such respective
district. Such map or maps shall show the extreme boundaries of the
portion of the county so contained, as described by the street boundary
and shall have printed thereon the names of the streets or public ways
bounding the district; provided however, that where the extreme boundary
consists of the boundary line of any city, town or village, it shall be
sufficient to so indicate, without showing or naming individual streets
or public ways.

3. The state board shall also publish three individual maps of each
borough of the city of New York, which shall show all of the
congressional districts or parts thereof, all of the senatorial
districts or parts thereof, and all of the assembly districts or parts
thereof contained in such borough. Each such map shall show the extreme
boundaries of the districts to which it refers, as described in the
street boundary and shall have printed thereon the names of the streets
or public ways bounding the district.

4. All such maps shall be to scale. Pertinent copies of such maps
shall be filed and kept open to public inspection as follows: one in the
office of the town or city clerk, except in the city of New York; one in
the office of every board of elections, and each branch office, if any.
Surplus copies if any, may be sold at cost and the proceeds remitted to
the state board of elections. Whenever the boundaries of any
congressional, senatorial, or assembly district are altered, the state
board of elections shall publish revised copies of those maps affected
by such boundary alteration and make the distribution required in this
subdivision.

5. a. A map or separate maps of uniform scale of election districts
within a town or ward, or, in the city of New York and the county of
Nassau, within an assembly district, wholly within such city or county
or within that portion of any assembly district within such city or
county, shall be made by the board or body creating or altering the
districts so that the map or maps on file at any time will show the
existing election districts in such town, ward, assembly district, or
the appropriate portion of such assembly district.

b. In a city, street corner numbers of the block or blocks defining
the extreme boundaries of each election district shall be printed on the
map or maps, within or outside the block line or lines, so as to show
plainly the highest and lowest street numbers within the election
district of every street bounding the district.

c. Copies of such maps or descriptions shall be filed and kept open to
public inspection as follows: one in the office of the town or city
clerk, except in the city of New York; one in the office and each branch
office, if any, of the board of elections.

d. One copy of each map shall be delivered, upon request, to the state
board of elections and to a person or officer designated jointly by the
speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate. Each
time an election district boundary is changed a copy of the new map
shall be sent to each such board, person or officer who has requested
such maps. Surplus copies of maps of election districts in a city or
town may be sold at cost and the proceeds paid to the county, city or
town which incurred the expense of preparing the maps.

e. Copies of such maps shall be posted on the board of elections'
website. In addition, each board of elections shall make such maps
available in downloadable digital file formats compatible with
geographic information system (GIS) software, such as shapefile,
geodatabase, KML, or other similar vector based GIS file types.

6. In a town, after the creation or alteration of any election
district therein, the board of elections shall furnish to the inspectors
of election in each election district, on the first day of registration
or election occurring after such change, a map or dsecription showing
such election district.