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This bill sets deadlines for new political parties in New York to file their name and emblem with the state board of elections.
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Set Deadlines for Party Names
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- Referred to election law
- Referred to election law
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Set Deadlines for New Party Names
In Senate Committee · Elections · Sponsor Rachel May
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6713
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to filing name of new political party
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2-124 of the election law is amended to read as follows:
1. The state committee of a party shall select a name and emblem to distinguish the candidates of the party for public office in all districts of the state, and shall file in the office of the state board of elections, a certificate executed by its chairman and secretary, setting forth the name and showing the emblem so selected. A new party shall file such first certificate not later than the last day of February following the election at which the party obtains party status and shall take effect upon filing. Any other certificate filed changing the name of a party shall take effect on the last day of January after the next gubernatorial election.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10652-01-9
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