Relates to declining party nominations after primary elections; provides that a certificate to fill a vacancy by declination shall be filed not later than twenty days after such declination has been filed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5462--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported
favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on
Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to declining party nomi-
nations after primary elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6-158 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
3 15. (a) A person who has been designated for nomination for public
4 office by any party or parties and who thereafter does not receive one
5 or more such nominations may decline any nomination or nominations for
6 such office by filing a certificate of declination not later than the
7 fifteenth day after the primary election.
8 (b) A certificate to fill a vacancy by declination pursuant to this
9 subdivision shall be filed not later than twenty days after such decli-
10 nation has been filed.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09178-03-9
