Bill Text: NY S03285 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3285 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S03285-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3285
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 31, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens.  O'MARA, LARKIN -- 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 increasing  the  number
         of  registrants  an election district may contain with the approval of
         the county board of elections
         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] THREE  THOUSAND
   17  registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
   18  district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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