Bill Text: NY A09970 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes minimum time for setting a special election to 50 days from the governor's proclamation and maximum time to 60 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-02 - referred to election law [A09970 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09970-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9970 IN ASSEMBLY May 2, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to the time for setting a special election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 42 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 4 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 3 3. Upon the failure to elect to any office, except that of governor or 4 lieutenant-governor, at a general or special election, at which such 5 office is authorized to be filled, or upon the death or disqualification 6 of a person elected to office before the commencement of his or her 7 official term, or upon the occurrence of a vacancy in any elective 8 office which cannot be filled by appointment for a period extending to 9 or beyond the next general election at which a person may be elected 10 thereto, the governor may in his or her discretion make proclamation of 11 a special election to fill such office, specifying the district or coun- 12 ty in which the election is to be held, and the day thereof, which shall 13 be not less than [seventy] fifty nor more than [eighty] sixty days from 14 the date of the proclamation. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08674-01-5
