Bill Text: NY A02804 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any county, city, town or village from enacting a local law, ordinance or regulation prohibiting or restricting posting of election material.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in election law [A02804 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02804-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2804
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WRIGHT,  DenDEKKER,  LAVINE,  PERRY, CASTRO,
         ROBERTS, AUBRY, O'DONNELL, WEPRIN, BARRON, CLARK, BOYLAND, COOK,  RAIA
         -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  FARRELL, MAGEE, ROBINSON, SKARTADOS
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting any county,
         city,  town  or  village from enacting a local law, ordinance or regu-
         lation prohibiting or restricting posting of election material
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Article  8 of the election law is amended by adding a new
    2  title 6 to read as follows:
    3                                  TITLE VI
    4                                   POSTING
    5  SECTION 8-600. POSTING RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITED.
    6    S 8-600. POSTING RESTRICTIONS PROHIBITED. NO  COUNTY,  CITY,  TOWN  OR
    7  VILLAGE  SHALL ENACT A LOCAL LAW, ORDINANCE OR REGULATION PROHIBITING OR
    8  RESTRICTING THE POSTING OF ANY HANDBILL, POSTER,  NOTICE,  SIGN,  ADVER-
    9  TISEMENT, STICKER OR ANY OTHER PRINTED MATERIAL PERTAINING TO ANY PRIMA-
   10  RY,  GENERAL  SPECIAL  ELECTION, UPON ANY CURB, GUTTER, FLAGSTONE, TREE,
   11  LAMPPOST, AWNING POST, TELEGRAPH POLE, TELEPHONE  POLE,  PUBLIC  UTILITY
   12  POLE, PUBLIC GARBAGE BIN, BUS SHELTER, BRIDGE, ELEVATED TRAIN STRUCTURE,
   13  HIGHWAY  FENCE,  BARREL, BOX, TRAFFIC STANCHION, TRAFFIC SIGN POLE, TREE
   14  BOX, TREE PIT PROTECTION DEVICE,  BENCH,  TRAFFIC  BARRIER,  HYDRANT  OR
   15  PUBLIC  PAY  TELEPHONE  ON  ANY STREET FOR A PERIOD OF FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
   16  BEFORE AND FORTY-EIGHT HOURS  AFTER  ANY  PRIMARY,  SPECIAL  OR  GENERAL
   17  ELECTION,  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT SUCH HANDBILL, POSTER, NOTICE, SIGN,
   18  ADVERTISEMENT, STICKER OR ANY OTHER PRINTED  MATERIAL  MUST  BE  REMOVED
   19  WITHIN THE FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER SUCH ELECTION.
   20    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   21  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00632-01-3