Allows polling places for school elections in city school districts of cities with less than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6540
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing polling plac-
es for school elections in city school districts of cities with less
than one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants to open at 6:00 a.m.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2602 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 171 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Notwithstanding any provisions of article forty-one of this chapter
5 to the contrary, the polls of such annual and special district meetings
6 shall be open during such consecutive hours, not less than nine, begin-
7 ning not earlier than [seven] six o'clock in the forenoon, and two of
8 which hours shall be after six o'clock in the evening, as the board of
9 education shall by resolution determine.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
11 elections occurring on and after such effective date. Effective imme-
12 diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
14 authorized to be made on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10188-01-9
