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N.Y. Election Law § 17-114: Failure to furnish information; false information

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 17. Protecting the Elective Franchise
  3. Title 1. Violations of the Elective Franchise

§ 17-114. Failure to furnish information; false information. 1. Any

person who knowingly harbors or conceals any person who falsely

registered as a voter, or who shall rent any room or bed to any person

to be used by such person for himself or any other person for the

purpose of unlawfully registering or voting therefrom is guilty of a

misdemeanor.

2. A keeper of a hotel, lodging-house, boarding-house or

rooming-house, who neglects to give to an election officer requesting

the same, a sworn list of persons residing in such hotel, lodging-house,

boarding-house, dwelling or apartment, together with the other

particulars or information in relation to such persons required to be

given by or pursuant to this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

3. A keeper of a hotel, lodging house, boarding-house, or

rooming-house or the owner or lessee of a dwelling or apartment who

makes a report or furnishes a list required by this chapter which

knowingly and falsely states that a person has resided on the premises

to which the report or list relates for a longer period than he has

actually resided therein, or puts upon such a list or in such a report a

name under which no person resides in said premises, is guilty of a

felony.

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