N.Y. Election Law § 6-202: Party nominations; villages

§ 6-202. Party nominations; villages. 1. Party nominations of

candidates for village offices in any county shall be made at a party

caucus or at a primary election, as the rules of the county committee,

heretofore or hereafter adopted consistent with the provisions of this

chapter shall provide. If the rules of the county committee of any

political party provide that party nominations for village offices of

that party in any or all villages in the county shall be made at a

village primary election, such primary election shall be held forty-nine

days prior to the date of the village election. In the event there is no

village committee with a chairman, the chairman of the county committee,

or such other person or body as the rules of such committee may provide,

shall designate an enrolled member of the party who is a qualified voter

of the village as the village election chairman. The chairman of the

county committee of each party in which nominations in any village are

made at a primary election shall file with the board of elections, at

least one week before the first day to file designating petitions for

such primary elections, a list of the name and address of the chairman

of the village committee or the village election chairman in each such

village. Such village chairman shall have general party responsibility

for the conduct of the village caucus or primary election. Such

nominations shall be made not more than fifty-six, nor less than

forty-nine days prior to the date of the village election.

2. A notice of any village primary held for making party nominations

of candidates for village offices to be filled at a village election

shall be given by the proper party authorities by publication at least

once in each of the two weeks preceding the primary in at least one

newspaper of general circulation within the village.

3. A notice of any party caucus held for making party nominations for

village offices for village elections shall be given by the proper party

authorities by posting such notice in the public areas at the offices of

the village clerk and the board of elections and by filing such notice

with such clerk and such board at least ten days preceding the day of

the caucus and, either by newspaper publication thereof once within the

village at least one week and not more than two weeks preceding the

caucus, or by posting such notice in six public places in the village at

least ten days preceding the day of the caucus.

4. The notice shall specify the time and place or places, and the

purpose of such caucus or primary, including the offices for which

candidates will be nominated thereat. There shall be a chairman and a

secretary and tellers for each such village primary or caucus, who shall

be appointed by the appropriate party officials. No person shall

participate in such primary or caucus who is not a resident of the

village and an enrolled voter of the party conducting the primary or

caucus. At any primary or caucus in which nominees are chosen by vote of

the people in attendance, the person eligible and receiving the highest

number of votes for an office shall be deemed nominated. Such village

primary or caucus shall not be conducted at public expense. The board of

elections shall furnish a list of enrolled voters to the chairman of the

village caucus or primary.

5. Any party nomination made at any such caucus or village primary

shall be evidenced by the filing of a certificate of nomination with the

board of elections. There shall be filed, together with such

certificate, or within five days after the board of elections sends the

notice of failure to file prescribed by this subdivision, a list of

enrolled members of the party who have participated in such caucus or

primary. If such list is not filed with such certificate, the board of

elections shall forthwith send notice of the failure to file such list

to the persons who signed such certificate, by first class mail,

together with a notice that such list must be filed within five days

after such notice was mailed. Such list shall be certified by the

presiding officer or secretary of such caucus or primary.