N.Y. Education Law § 2014: Registration of voters

§ 2014. Registration of voters. 1. In any union free school district,

the board of education may upon its own motion provide for the personal

registration of voters at school meetings or elections in such district

as provided in this section.

In such event, the board of education in such district shall

immediately designate four qualified voters of such district to

constitute a board of registration for such district to serve until the

thirtieth day following the next annual meeting or election of such

district. Thereafter, the board of education of such district shall

annually designate, not later than the thirtieth day following the

annual meeting or election of such district, four qualified voters of

such district to constitute a board of registration for such district.

Such members of the board of registration so appointed shall serve until

the thirtieth day after the annual meeting or election of such district

in the following year. In the event that a vacancy shall occur on the

board of registration, the board of education at any time may designate

a qualified voter of such district as a member of the board of

registration for such district to fill the vacancy.

Each member of the board of registration shall be entitled to

compensation at a rate to be fixed by the board of education for each

day actually and necessarily spent upon the duties of his office.

2. The board of registration of such district shall meet during the

annual meeting or election of such district at the place where such

annual meeting or election is held for the purpose of preparing a

register for meetings or elections held subsequent to such annual

meeting or election. Such board of registration of such district shall,

in addition, meet on such day or days as shall be fixed by the board of

education, the last day of which, however, shall not be more than

fourteen nor less than five days preceding each school meeting or

election in such district at such place in the school district, and at

such hours, as the board of education shall by resolution designate,

which hours shall include at least four consecutive hours between seven

o'clock in the morning and eight o'clock in the evening, for the purpose

of preparing a register for such meeting or election provided, however,

that at any annual meeting the majority of the voters may adopt a

resolution authorizing the registration of voters during the hours for

enrollment of children for a school term; provided further, however,

that such voters may also authorize registration during certain

specified hours of the school day, at the office of the district clerk

or business office of the school district by the district clerk,

assistant district clerk or a member of the board of registration. Such

registration shall not take place less than five days preceding any

school meeting or election. Such registration shall be effective to

include the next annual meeting and shall take place at the school or

schools within the district designated in the resolution. The register

shall, so far as practical, be in the same form as the register of

voters in an election district for general elections in a city or

village having five thousand inhabitants or more, under the election

law. The register shall be arranged alphabetically by the surnames, and

the place of residence by street and number or otherwise of each person

named on the list shall be given, or if none, some description

accurately locating such place of residence shall be given on such

register. In addition, the register shall have a column or columns in

which the inspectors of election may indicate whether each person named

on the list shall have voted in any election or elections or at any

meeting or meetings. The district clerk of such district shall attend

with the board of registration. The board of registration and the

district clerk, shall, for the annual meeting or election of the school

district, prepare a register of the qualified voters of such school

district who shall present themselves personally for registration. Such

board of registration shall in like manner prepare a register for each

special school meeting or election within such school district, except

that the register prepared at the last annual meeting or election and

the register or registers for any subsequent special meeting, meetings,

election, or elections in such school district shall be used by them as

the basis therefor. The register so prepared shall include all persons

who shall have presented themselves personally for registration in

accordance herewith and may include all persons who shall have been

previously registered hereunder for any annual or special meeting or

election and who shall have voted at any annual or special meeting or

any election held or conducted during the four calendar years prior to

the year in which such register is being prepared; and the board of

registration shall remove from the register all persons who are known to

be deceased, who have moved out of the school district or who are

otherwise not qualified as school district electors. The district clerk

shall furnish the necessary blank books and blanks at the expense of

such school district. School meetings and elections in such school

district shall be thereafter conducted in the manner provided by this

chapter, except that no person shall be entitled to vote thereat whose

name does not appear upon the register of the school district in which

he claims to be entitled to vote. In all cases, the board of education

shall cause the district clerk to give the notice required by

subdivision four of section two thousand four of this chapter.

3. The board of education may, upon its own motion and at least two

months prior to a school district meeting or election at which the same

is to be effective, revoke the provisions for personal registration

adopted as provided in this section. However, the board of education may

not thereafter provide for personal registration unless authorized by

the voters at a district meeting or election.

4. Whenever any union free school district in which personal

registration of voters at school meetings or elections therein is

required as provided in subdivision one of this section shall have been

divided into election districts pursuant to section two thousand

seventeen of this chapter, the board of education shall appoint a board

of registration pursuant to the provisions of subdivision one of this

section consisting of as many members as shall provide two for each

election district, shall designate a place in each such election

district and shall designate two members of the board of registration to

attend thereat for the purpose of preparing a register for such election

district. At the same time, the board of education shall designate the

registration place at which the district clerk shall attend. The

provisions of subdivisions one, two and three of this section shall

apply with respect to the registration of voters in such union free

school districts, except as may be inconsistent with the foregoing

provisions of this subdivision, and except that the notice provided to

be given by the district clerk in subdivision two of this section and

subdivision five and six of section two thousand four of this chapter

shall describe each of the election districts as required in subdivision

two of section two thousand seventeen and subdivision six of section two

thousand four of this chapter.

5. The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to any

person registered to vote pursuant to the provisions of section three

hundred fifty-two of the election law.

6. In any case where a union free school district has provided for the

registration of voters during specified hours of the school day at the

office of the district clerk, assistant clerk or a member of the board

of registration, such school district's board of registration, at the

discretion of the board of education, may not be required to meet prior

to the annual meeting or election, or prior to a special meeting or

special election pursuant to subdivision two of this section, solely for

the purposes of registering voters.