Times, Places, Notices, Officers and Expenses of Elections.

§ 10

Tuesday of September in each year, the town board of each town, and the common council of each city, except New York, and the police board of The City of New York, shall designate the place in each election district in the city or town at which the meeting for the registration of electors and the election shall be held during the year. Each room so designated shall be of a reasonable size, sufficient to admit and comfortably accommodate at least ten electors at a time outside of the guard rails. No building, or part of a building, shall be so designated in any city if within thirty days before such designation, intoxicating liquors, ale or beer, shall have been sold in any part thereof. No room shall be designated elsewhere in a city, if within thirty days before such designation, intoxicating liquors, ale or beer, shall have been sold in such room, or in a room adjoining thereto, with a door or passage-way between the two rooms. No intoxicating liquors, ale or beer shall be sold in such building in a city or such room or adjoining room elsewhere after such designation and before the general election next thereafter, or be allowed in any room in which an election is held during the day of the election or the canvass of the votes. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. If any place so designated shall thereafter and before the close of the election be destroyed, or for any reason become unfit for use, or can not for any reason be used for such purpose, the officers charged with the designation of a place for such election shall forthwith designate some other suitable place for holding such election. Not more than one polling place shall be in the same room, and not more than two polling places shall be in the same building. The officers authorized to designate such places in any town or city, shall provide for each polling place at such election, the necessary ballot and other boxes, guard rails, voting booths and supplies therein, and the other furniture of such polling place, necessary for the lawful conduct of each election thereat, shall preserve the same when not in use, and shall deliver all such ballot and other boxes for each polling place, with the keys thereof, to the inspectors of election of each election district at least onehalf hour before the opening of the polls at each election. The officers authorized to designate the registration and polling places in any city, except The City of New York, shall cause to be published in two newspapers within'such city a list of such places so designated, and the boundaries of each election district in which such

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registration and polling place is located. Such publication shall be made in the newspapers so selected upon each day of registration and the day of election, and on the day prior to each such days. One of such newspapers so selected shall be one which advocates the principles of the political party polling the highest number of votes in the state at the last preceding election for governor, and the other newspaper so designated shall be one which advocates the principles of the political party polling the next highest number of votes for governor at said election. The police board, of The City of New York shall cause to be published in two newspapers in each county wholly or partly within such city a list of the registration and polling places so designated in each borough insuch respective counties and the boundaries of each election district therein in which such registration and polling place is located; except that in the borough of Brooklyn, such publication shall be made in the newspapers designated to publish corporation notices therein. Such publication shall be made in such newspapers upon each day of registration and the day of election and on the day prior to each of such days. Such publications shall which shall

be made in the newspapers published in such tions shall

respectively advocate the principles of the political parties which at the last preceding election for governor respectively cast the largest and next largest number of votes in the state for such office. The said police board shall also cause to be published in the City Record on or before the first day of registration in each year a complete list of all the registration and polling places so designated and the boundaries of the election districts in which such places are located arranged in numerical order under the designation of the respective boroughs in which they are located. In selecting the newspapers in which such publications are to be made the said board shall keep in view the object of giving the widest publicity thereto. (As amended by chap. 379 of 1897, ! $ 4.)

§ 11. Election officers; designation, number and qualifications. -There shall be in every election district of this state the following election officers, namely, four inspectors, two poll clerks and two ballot clerks, whose term of office shall be for one year from the date of their appointment or election, and who shall serve at every general election, special or other election held within their districts during such term. No person shall be appointed or elected an inspector of election, poll clerk or ballot clerk who is

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98 diately after the next town meeting, and at such next town

meeting inspectors of election shall be elected for each election district as constituted by such creation, division or alteration. If the creation, division or alteration of an election district is rendered necessary by the creation, division or alteration of a town, or ward of a city, it shall take effect immediately, but a new town or ward shall not be created, and no new town or ward shall be subdivided into election districts between the first day of August of any year, and the day of the general election next thereafter. If inspectors are not elected or appointed for such district outside of a city before September the first next thereafter, the town board of the town shall appoint four inspectors of election for such district. If a town shall include a city, or a portion of a city, only such election districts as are wholly outside of the city shall be deemed election districts of the town, except for the purpose of town meetings. The board of elections of the city of New York shall divide such city into election districts on or before the first day of July in any year whenever necessary so to do as hereinafter provided. The election districts existing pursuant to the provisions of law in the counties within the city of New York, shall continue with their present boundaries, so far as possible, until at some general or city election the number of registered electors therein shall exceed six hundred and fifty, provided, however, that any election district containing less than seventy-five electors in such counties, made necessary by the crossing of congressional lines with other political divisions, may be consolidated with contiguous election districts in any year when no representative in congress is to be voted for in such districts. On or before the first day of July in every year the board of elections of the city of New York shall divide each election district of said city which contains more than six hundred and fifty electors, as shown by the registration of electors for the election of the preceding year, into two or more election districts. Such election districts so established in the city of New York shall not again be changed until at some general election the number of registered electors therein shall exceed six hundred and fifty, except where changes are made necessary by a change in the boundaries of congressional, senate, or assembly districts or ward lines, provided, however, that h e number of regis

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tered electors in any election district shall for two consecutive years, be less than two hundred and fifty, such district may be consolidated with contiguous election districts in the discretion of said board of elections. In that portion of the city of New York within the county of New York each election district shall be compact in form, entirely within an assembly district and numbered in consecutive order therein respectively. In that portion of the city of New York outside of the county of New York each election district shall be compact in form, entirely within a ward and numbered in consecutive order therein respectively. No election district shall contain portions of two counties, or two senate or assembly districts or two wards. Each town and each part of a town included in the city of New York, as constituted by the Greater New York charter, shall be respectively deemed to be a ward within the meaning of this section.

§ 4. Section ten of said act, as amended by chapter three hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 10. Designation of places for registry and voting, publication of same; and provision of furniture therefor.-On the first Tuesday of September in each year, the town board of each town, and the common council of each city, except New York, and the board of elections of the city of New York, shall desig nate the place in each election district in the city or town at which the meeting for the registration of electors and the election shall be held during the year. Each room so designated shall be of a reasonable size, sufficient to admit and comfortably accommodate at least ten electors at a time outside of the guard rails. No building, or part of a building, shall be so designated in any city if within thirty days before such designation, intoxicating liquors, ale or beer, shall have been sold in any part thereof. No room shall be designated elsewhere in a city, if within thirty days before such designation, intoxicating liquors, ale or beer, shall have been sold in such room, or in a room adjoining thereto, with a door or passage-way between the two rooms. No intoxicating liquors, ale or beer shall be sold in such building in a city or such room or adjoining room elsewhere after such designation and before the general election next thereafter, or be allowed in any room in which an election is held during the day of the elec