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                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. BENJAMIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MILLER
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the hours for conduct-
  ing voting in the city of New York

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 8-100 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 335 of the laws  of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2. Polls shall be open for voting during the following hours: a prima-
ry  election from twelve o'clock noon until nine o'clock in the evening,
except in the city of New York and  the  counties  of  Nassau,  Suffolk,
Westchester,  Rockland,  Orange,  Putnam  and  Erie, and in such city or
county from [six] SEVEN o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the
evening; the general election from [six] SEVEN o'clock  in  the  morning
until  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening; a special election called by the
governor pursuant to the public officers law, and, except  as  otherwise
provided  by  law, every other election, from [six] SEVEN o'clock in the
morning until nine o'clock in the evening.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.




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