STATE OF NEW YORK
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10524
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the acceptance of nomi-
nations for office or for a party position
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 6-146 of the election law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 1. A person designated as a candidate for nomination or for party
4 position, or nominated for an office, otherwise than at a primary
5 election, may, in a certificate signed and acknowledged by him or her,
6 and filed as provided in this article, decline the designation or nomi-
7 nation; provided, however, that, if designated or nominated for a public
8 office other than a judicial office by a party of which he or she is not
9 a duly enrolled member, or if designated or nominated for a public
10 office other than a judicial office by more than one party or independ-
11 ent body or by an independent body alone, such person shall, in a
12 certificate signed and acknowledged by him or her, and filed as provided
13 in this article, accept the designation or nomination as a candidate of
14 each such party or independent body other than that of the party of
15 which he or she is an enrolled member, and state that he or she is a
16 citizen of the state of New York; is eligible to be elected to such
17 office or position; and, if elected will at the time of commencement of
18 the term of such office or position, meet the constitutional or statuto-
19 ry qualifications thereof or, with respect to judicial office, will meet
20 such qualifications within thirty days of the commencement of the term
21 of such office, otherwise such designation or nomination shall be null
22 and void.
23 § 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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