N.Y. Election Law § 5-612: Registration records; use by town or village clerks and for school district, improvement district and fire district elections

§ 5-612. Registration records; use by town or village clerks and for

school district, improvement district and fire district elections. 1.

The board of elections shall, not later than the twentieth day before a

special town election and not later than the seventh day before a

village election conducted by the village clerk, provide a list of

registered voters or shall place registration poll records in properly

locked ledgers in the temporary custody of the town or village clerk for

the purpose of permitting him to copy such records or to deliver such

records for village election purposes to the board of inspectors of the

several polling places in the election districts as provided by this

chapter. The board of elections shall indicate on such list, or on a

separate accompanying list, the names of those voters whose registration

records have been marked "permanently disabled". The names of voters in

inactive status shall appear on a separate accompanying list. Voters

listed in inactive status who appear at the polls to vote shall be

challenged in the manner provided by section 8-504 of this chapter.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nineteen hundred six,

twenty hundred fourteen and twenty-six hundred six of the education law

with respect to registration of voters, any person, otherwise qualified

to vote who is registered under the provisions of this article shall be

entitled to vote at all school district meetings or elections without

further registration.

3. Whenever a school district meeting or election is scheduled, the

board of elections for the appropriate county or counties shall deliver

the registration lists, indicating on such list, or on a separate

accompanying list, the names of those voters whose registration record

has been marked "permanently disabled", and, on a separate accompanying

list, the names of voters in inactive status who shall be challenged if

they appear at the polls to vote, for the appropriate election districts

or those portions of the election districts encompassing the school

district to the appropriate officials of such school district as soon as

possible upon request of the appropriate officials, but no later than

the thirty days immediately prior to the regularly scheduled school

district election, provided further, that such board of elections shall

deliver no later than ten days prior to each such special or regular

school district election supplemental registration lists containing the

names of those voters who have registered after delivery of the first

registration lists and who are eligible to vote in such elections,

indicating on such list or on a separate accompanying list the names of

those voters whose registration record has been marked "permanently

disabled".

4. Within five days of the adoption by a board of education of a

resolution in accordance with subdivisions one and three of section two

thousand fourteen of the education law, such board of education shall

notify the appropriate board of elections of such adoption.

5. The board of education of a school district which has adopted such

a resolution shall, not less than forty-five days before each regularly

scheduled school district meeting or election and fourteen days before

any such special meeting or election notify the board of elections of

the date of such meeting or election.

6. The board of elections, upon the request of the board of

commissioners of an improvement district which elects commissioners or a

fire district shall, not later than the twenty-first day before each

election in such district, deliver to the secretary of such district a

list of persons registered to vote as of the twenty-third day before

such election in the election districts contained in such district,

indicating on such list the names of the voters in inactive status, or

shall place the registration poll records for such election districts in

properly locked ledgers in the temporary custody of such district

secretary for the purpose of permitting him to copy such records. Any

voter listed in inactive status who appears at the polls to vote, shall

be challenged.

7. The appropriate official of each town, village, school district,

improvement district or fire district which obtains a list of registered

voters from the board of elections pursuant to the provisions of this

section shall deliver the list containing the names of the voters in

inactive status or, at the discretion of such official, a photocopy of

such list to the board of elections not later than one week after the

election at which the list was used with an indication of which voters

listed in inactive status on such list voted at the election for which

the list was prepared. If such official delivered the original list, the

board of elections shall return such list to the official from whom it

was received within three weeks thereafter.