STATE OF NEW YORK
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5779
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the hours for conduct-
ing voting 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. Subdivision 2 of section 8-100 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 335 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Polls shall be open for voting during the following hours: a prima-
5 ry election from twelve o'clock noon until nine o'clock in the evening,
6 except in the city of New York and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk,
7 Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Erie, and in such city or
8 county from [six] seven o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the
9 evening; the general election from [six] seven o'clock in the morning
10 until nine o'clock in the evening; a special election called by the
11 governor pursuant to the public officers law, and, except as otherwise
12 provided by law, every other election, from [six] seven o'clock in the
13 morning until nine o'clock in the evening.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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