Provides that a candidate who files a certificate of acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than the seventh day after the primary election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to nominating and desig-
nating petitions and certificates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6-158 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 434 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. A certificate of acceptance or declination of a designation shall
5 be filed not later than the fourth day after the last day to file such
6 designation, except that a candidate who files such a certificate of
7 acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or
8 petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any
9 party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than
10 the seventh day after the primary election.
11 § 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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