Bill Text: NY S02309 | 2023-2024 | 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) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S02309 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02309-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2309 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 19, 2023 ___________ 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 section 2 of part O of chapter 55 of the 3 laws of 2022, is amended 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, the 7 contiguous property of a college or university which contains three 8 hundred or more registrants who are registered to vote at any address on 9 such contiguous property, or a county legislative, assembly, senatorial 10 or congressional district. Except as provided in paragraph b of this 11 subdivision, election district boundaries, other than those boundaries 12 which are coterminous with the boundaries of those political subdivi- 13 sions and college or university properties mentioned in this paragraph, 14 must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character- 15 istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without 16 the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district 17 shall contain not more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding 18 registrants in inactive status) or, with the approval of the county 19 board of elections, not more than two thousand registrants (excluding 20 registrants in inactive status), except in the city of New York where an 21 election district shall not contain more than four thousand registrants 22 (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election district 23 may be divided for the convenience of the voters. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04064-01-3