N.Y. Election Law § 4-130: Supplies for registration; manner and time of delivery

§ 4-130. Supplies for registration; manner and time of delivery. 1.

Before it is sent from the office or branch office of the board of

elections, each ledger or binder of blank registration records shall be

locked in a distinctively numbered carrying case. Such board shall place

the key for such carrying case in a sealed envelope on which shall be

written or printed the number of the carrying case. No such case or key

shall be delivered to any person who is not designated in this chapter

as a person entitled to receive it. Any person to whom any such case or

key shall be delivered shall give a receipt therefor to the person

delivering it. Such receipt shall recite the official title or capacity

of the person receiving it and, in each instance, the distinctive number

identifying it. After leaving the board of elections no such case shall

be unlocked except at the time and in the manner provided in this

chapter.

2. a. Except in the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester, the

board of elections shall deliver at its office to each town or city

clerk in its county not more than five days before the beginning of

local registration, the registration record forms, supplies and

equipment required for local registration and such clerks shall deliver

the same to the several boards of inspectors within such town or city

approximately one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning such

registration.

b. In the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester the board of

elections shall deliver such material to the boards of inspectors at

least one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning local

registration.