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A08668 Summary:

BILL NOA08668 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00347

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SPONSORWalker

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 4, Pub Off L; amd 14, Sec Cl Cit L; amd 300, Al Co Gov L; amd 400, County L

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Requires certain elections of public officials occur on even-numbered years.

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BILL NOA08668 

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05/27/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026referred to election law

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Go to topA08668 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8668

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Election Law

 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, the second class cities law,
 the alternative county government law and the county law, in relation
 to requiring certain elections of public officials occur on even-num-
 bered years

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4 of the public officers law, as
 2 amended by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 3 2. All terms of city officers, including supervisors, elected in any
 4 city or part of a city, and of county officers in the city of New York,
 5 shall expire at the end of an [odd-numbered] even-numbered year. Such
 6 officers shall be elected, except to fill a vacancy, at the general
 7 election in [odd-numbered] even-numbered years. [This subdivision shall
 8 not apply to any judicial officer.]
 9 § 2. Section 14 of the second class cities law is amended to read as
 10 follows:
 11 § 14. Elections. All elections of city officers, including supervisors
 12 and judicial officers of a city court or inferior local court, shall be
 13 held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, and, except
 14 to fill vacancies, in an [odd-numbered] even-numbered year. All such
 15 elections shall be held at the same time and places as the general
 16 election held in such year, and shall be conducted in all respects in
 17 the same manner as general elections in cities are required to be
 18 conducted, and all the provisions of law relative to such elections
 19 shall be applicable to the election for officers of the city. In case of
 20 the failure to elect an elective city officer, except as otherwise
 21 provided herein, the office shall be deemed to be vacant for the purpose
 22 of choosing a successor and the vacancy shall be filled in the manner

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01365-01-5

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 1 provided herein for the filling of a vacancy in such office happening
 2 otherwise than by expiration of term.
 3 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 300 of the alternative county government
 4 law is amended to read as follows:
 5 2. If the comptroller is elective, the first comptroller elected under
 6 the form adopted shall be elected at the first general election after
 7 its adoption, except that, if the county has an elective county auditor
 8 at the time of such adoption, the first comptroller shall be elected at
 9 the general election in the last year of the term of the last county
 10 auditor elected or, if the office of such auditor becomes vacant before
 11 the last year of [his] such comptroller's term, at the next general
 12 election thereafter at which the vacancy may be filled by the election
 13 of a comptroller. The second comptroller shall be elected at the general
 14 election in the [second odd-numbered] first even-numbered year after the
 15 year in which the first comptroller is elected, and subsequent comp-
 16 trollers shall be elected at the general election in every fourth year
 17 thereafter. The term of office of the comptroller shall be four years
 18 from and including the first day of January next following [his] such
 19 election, except that the first comptroller elected shall serve for a
 20 term of three years if [he] the comptroller is elected in an [even-num-
 21 bered] odd-numbered year. A vacancy in the office of an elective comp-
 22 troller occurring otherwi