Bill Text: NY A08560 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that certain local elections outside of New York City shall be in an even-numbered year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-31 - print number 8560d [A08560 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08560-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8560

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law  and the town law, in relation to
          elections; and to repeal section 6-200 of the election law relating to
          village elections

          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 6-202 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 359 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Party nominations of candidates for village offices in  any  county
     4  shall  be  made at a party caucus or at a primary election, as the rules
     5  of the county committee, heretofore or hereafter adopted consistent with
     6  the provisions of this chapter shall provide. If the rules of the county
     7  committee of any political party  provide  that  party  nominations  for
     8  village offices of that party in any or all villages in the county shall
     9  be  made  at  a village primary election, such primary election shall be
    10  held [forty-nine days prior to the date of  the  village  election]  the
    11  first  Tuesday  after  the  second  Monday  in June before every general
    12  election in an even-numbered year unless otherwise changed by an act  of
    13  the  legislature.  In  the  event  there  is no village committee with a
    14  chairman, the chairman of the county committee, or such other person  or
    15  body  as  the  rules  of  such committee may provide, shall designate an
    16  enrolled member of the party who is a qualified voter of the village  as
    17  the  village  election chairman. The chairman of the county committee of
    18  each party in which nominations in any village are  made  at  a  primary
    19  election  shall  file  with  the  board  of elections, at least one week
    20  before the first day to file  designating  petitions  for  such  primary
    21  elections, a list of the name and address of the chairman of the village
    22  committee  or  the  village election chairman in each such village. Such
    23  village chairman shall have general party responsibility for the conduct
    24  of the village caucus or primary election.  Such  nominations  shall  be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  made not more than fifty-six, nor less than forty-nine days prior to the
     2  date of the village election.
     3    §  2.  Paragraphs  a  and  b of subdivision 1 of section 15-104 of the
     4  election law, paragraph a as amended by chapter 248 of the laws of  1983
     5  and  paragraph  b  as  amended  by  chapter 565 of the laws of 1998, are
     6  amended to read as follows:
     7    a. The general village election shall be held on the [third Tuesday in
     8  March except in any village which presently elects, or hereafter  adopts
     9  a  proposition  to  elect,  its  officers on a date other than the third
    10  Tuesday in March] Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday  in  November
    11  in an even-numbered year.
    12    [b. In any village in which the general village election, or a special
    13  village  election for officers pursuant to this chapter, is scheduled to
    14  be held on the third Tuesday of March, for any year in which the  seven-
    15  teenth day of March shall fall on such Tuesday, the board of trustees of
    16  such  village shall provide, by the resolution prescribed by paragraph b
    17  of subdivision three of this section, that such election shall  be  held
    18  on  the  eighteenth  day of March. Any provision of a resolution adopted
    19  pursuant to this subdivision shall not  otherwise  alter  the  political
    20  calendar for any such election, which shall continue to be computed from
    21  the  third  Tuesday of March. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivi-
    22  sion five of this section, any provision of a resolution adopted  pursu-
    23  ant  to  this  subdivision  shall be effective only if such provision is
    24  specifically published as provided by this section.]
    25    § 3. Section 6-200 of the election law is REPEALED.
    26    § 4. Section 80 of the town law is amended to read as follows:
    27    § 80. Biennial town elections. [Except as otherwise provided  in  this
    28  chapter,  a]  A biennial town election for the election of town officers
    29  and for the consideration of such questions as may be  proposed  by  the
    30  town board or the duly qualified electors, pursuant to the provisions of
    31  this  chapter,  shall  be  held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first
    32  Monday in November of every [odd-numbered] even-numbered year. All other
    33  town elections are special elections. A town election  or  special  town
    34  election  held pursuant to this chapter, shall be construed as a substi-
    35  tute, for a town meeting or a special town meeting  heretofore  provided
    36  to  be  held  by  law,  and  a reference in any law to a town meeting or
    37  special town meeting shall be construed as referring to a town  election
    38  or special town election.
    39    § 5. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law or of any other
    40  general, special or local law, all elections of any position of a county
    41  elected  official,  town  elected  official, village elected official or
    42  city elected official, other than officials of the city of New  York  or
    43  any  municipality  contained within the city of New York, shall occur on
    44  the Tuesday next succeeding the  first  Monday  in  November.  All  such
    45  elections shall occur in an even-numbered year.
    46    §  6.  This  act  shall  take  effect  one day after the first general
    47  election in an odd-numbered year next succeeding the date  on  which  it
    48  shall have become a law or on January first of an odd-numbered year next
    49  succeeding  the  date  on  which  it  shall have become a law, whichever
    50  occurs first; provided, however, that officials elected in  an  odd-num-
    51  bered  year  whose  terms  expire  on or after such effective date shall
    52  expire as if  such  officials  were  elected  at  the  previous  general
    53  election  held  in  an  even-numbered year.   Effective immediately, the
    54  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    55  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    56  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.