N.Y. Election Law § 4-106: Certification of offices to be filled at general or special elections; state board of elections, county, city, village and town clerks

§ 4-106. Certification of offices to be filled at general or special

elections; state board of elections, county, city, village and town

clerks.

1. The state board of elections shall, by February first in the year

of each general election, make and transmit to the board of elections of

each county, a certificate stating each office, except county, city,

village and town offices to be voted for at such election in such

county.

2. Each county, city, village and town clerk, by February first in the

year of each general election, shall make and transmit to the board of

elections a certificate stating each county, city, village or town

office, respectively to be voted for at each such election. Each village

clerk, at least five months before each general village election

conducted by the board of elections, shall make, and transmit to such

board, a certificate stating each village office to be filled at such

election.

3. If any such office is for an unexpired term, the certificate shall

so state. The state board of elections shall forthwith, upon the filing

of a governor's proclamation ordering a special election, transmit to

the board of elections in each county in which the special election is

to be held, a notice of such proclamation and a certificate of the

offices to be voted for at such special election.

4. Within three days after the occurrence of any vacancy in an office

required to be filled at the next general election or a general or

special village election or other special election conducted by the

board of elections, the state board of elections or the county, city,

town or village clerk as is appropriate, shall file with the county

board of elections, a certificate indicating the occurrence of the

vacancy and the position which is to be filled.