Bill Text: NY S02918 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S02918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02918-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2918
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DILAN  -- 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  prohibiting  election
          commissioners  and  deputy  elections  commissioners  from  holding  a
          publicly elected office
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 3-200 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 195 of the laws  of  2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  No  person [shall be] appointed as election commissioner or deputy
     5  election commissioner shall continue to hold office who is not a  regis-
     6  tered voter in the county and not an enrolled member of the party recom-
     7  mending  his  or  her appointment, or who is the chair of the respective
     8  democratic or republican party or committee in such county or who  holds
     9  any  other  public  office, except that of commissioner of deeds, notary
    10  public, [village officer, city or town justice,] member of  a  community
    11  board  within  the  city  of  New York or trustee or officer of a school
    12  district outside of a city; provided, however,  that  the  provision  of
    13  this subdivision prohibiting an election commissioner or deputy election
    14  commissioner  from  continuing  to  hold  office who is the chair of the
    15  respective democratic or republican party or committee  in  such  county
    16  shall not apply to any person currently serving as election commissioner
    17  or deputy election commissioner.
    18    §  2. Subdivision 6 of section 3-200 of the election law is amended to
    19  read as follows:
    20    6. An election commissioner or deputy election commissioner shall  not
    21  be  a  candidate  for  any  elective office which he or she would not be
    22  entitled to hold under the provisions of this article, unless he or  she
    23  has  ceased  by  resignation  or otherwise, to be commissioner or deputy
    24  commissioner prior to his or her  nomination  or  designation  therefor.
    25  Otherwise such nomination or designation shall be null and void.
    26    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03386-01-7