Relates to obtaining written acceptance from candidates for certain county committees; requires written acceptance, duly acknowledged, from such candidates to be so designated to be filed within ten days of designating petitions for certain county committee candidates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5428--A
Cal. No. 850
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 30, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a 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 obtaining written
consent from candidates for certain county committees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6-134 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
3 14. In the case of a designating petition for election to the party
4 position of member of a county committee located within a city having a
5 population of one million or more, a candidate's written acceptance to
6 be so designated, duly acknowledged, shall be delivered to the board of
7 elections within ten days of the filing of such designating petition.
8 § 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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