Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2003--A
Cal. No. 706
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. OPPENHEIMER, DIAZ, KRUEGER, PARKER, SAMPSON,
SCHNEIDERMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted to the Commit-
tee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported
favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Codes
-- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the boundaries of
election districts and the designation of polling places
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4-104 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
3 5-a. Whenever a contiguous property of a college or university
4 contains three hundred or more registrants (excluding registrants in
5 inactive status) who are registered to vote at an address on such
6 contiguous property, the polling place designated for such registrants
7 shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the
8 college or university.
9 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 4-100 of the election
10 law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read
11 as follows:
12 a. Each election district shall be in compact form and may not be
13 partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
14 five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, the
15 contiguous property of a college or university which contains three
16 hundred or more registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status)
17 who are registered to vote at an address on such contiguous property, or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03295-03-0
S. 2003--A 2
1 a county legislative, assembly, senatorial or congressional district.
2 Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
3 boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
4 boundaries of those political subdivisions and college or university
5 properties mentioned in this paragraph, must be streets, rivers, rail-
6 road lines or other permanent characteristics of the landscape which are
7 clearly visible to any person without the need to use any technical or
8 mechanical device. An election district shall contain not more than nine
9 hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status) or,
10 with the approval of the county board of elections, not more than eleven
11 hundred fifty registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status),
12 but any election district may be divided for the convenience of the
13 voters.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.
