Bill Text: NY S00305 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00305 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00305-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 305 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the creation, consol- idation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York 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 registrants 17 (excluding registrants in inactive status), except in the city of New 18 York where an election district shall not contain more than four thou- 19 sand registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any 20 election district may be divided for the convenience of the voters. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02517-01-1