Bill Text: NY A01183 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Sets forth provisions for absentee ballots for fire district elections and improvement district elections.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - amended on third reading 1183b [A01183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01183-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1183--B
                                                                Cal. No. 359
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 8, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF, MONTESANO, CROUCH, FINCH, STECK -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. HAWLEY, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, RIVERA,  THIELE  --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Local Governments --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Local
          Governments  in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported
          from committee, advanced to  a  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the town law, in relation to absentee ballots for fire
          district elections and improvement district elections
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 175-b of the town law, as amended
     2  by chapter 401 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2. a. [An applicant for such an absentee ballot shall submit an appli-
     4  cation setting forth (1) his or her name and residence address,  includ-
     5  ing  the street and number, if any, or town and rural delivery route, if
     6  any; (2) that he or she is or will be, on the day  of  the  election,  a
     7  qualified voter of the district in which he or she resides in that he or
     8  she  is  or will be, on such date, over eighteen years of age, a citizen
     9  of the United States and has or will have resided in  the  district  for
    10  thirty  days  next preceding such date; (3) that he or she is registered
    11  in the town; (4) that he or she will be unable  to  appear  to  vote  in
    12  person  on  the  day  of  the  election for which the absentee ballot is
    13  requested because he or she is, or will be on such day (a) a patient  in
    14  a  hospital, or unable to appear personally at the polling place on such
    15  day because of illness or physical disability or (b) because of  his  or
    16  her duties, occupation or business will require him or her to be outside
    17  of the county of his or her residence on such day, (c) because he or she
    18  will  be  on vacation outside the county of his or her residence on such
    19  day; or, (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he  or  she

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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