STATE OF NEW YORK
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3360
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, ORTIZ, D'URSO, SEAWRIGHT, GOTTFRIED --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to first class mailing of
compliance unit notices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-104-a of the election law, as
2 added by section 5 of subpart B of part H of chapter 55 of the laws of
3 2014, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. There shall be a compliance unit within the board of elections. The
5 compliance unit shall examine campaign finance statements required to be
6 filed pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter. If such statements
7 are found to be deficient, the compliance unit shall notify the person
8 required to file such statement of such deficiency. Such notice shall be
9 in writing and mailed to the last known residence or business address of
10 such person by certified mail, return receipt requested, or mailed to
11 such address by first class mail if an affidavit attesting to such mail-
12 ing is created to evidence such mailing. If the person required to file
13 such statement is a treasurer who has stated that the committee has been
14 authorized by one or more candidates, a copy of such notice shall be
15 sent to each candidate by first class mail.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth of December next
17 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01994-01-9
