Bill Text: NY A04189 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4189 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A04189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04189-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4189--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CUSICK, ABINANTI, WEPRIN, GALEF, SKOUFIS -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --  recommitted  to
          the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
          2  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing  the  number
          of  registrants  an election district may contain with the approval of
          the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of section 4-100 of the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    a.  Each  election  district  shall  be in compact form and may not be
     5  partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
     6  five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one  town,  or  a
     7  county  legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional district.
     8  Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
     9  boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous  with  the
    10  boundaries  of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
    11  must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or  other  permanent  character-
    12  istics  of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
    13  the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
    14  shall contain not more than nine hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding
    15  registrants  in  inactive  status)  or,  with the approval of the county
    16  board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred  fifty]  two  thousand
    17  registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
    18  district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
    19    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
    20  chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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