New York Election Law Article 15 - VILLAGE ELECTIONS

• 15-100 - Application of Article.
  This article applies to all general and special village elections for officers and all the provisions of this chapter, not inconsistent with this article, shall...
• 15-102 - Definitions.
  The terms used in this article shall have the meaning herein defined unless other meaning is clearly apparent in language or context: 1. "General village...
• 15-104 - General Village Election.
  1. a. The general village election shall be held on the third Tuesday in March except in any village which presently elects, or hereafter adopts...
• 15-106 - Special Village Elections for Officers.
  1. a. In a village where the rules of any party require that any nomination of candidates for village office by such party be made...
• 15-108 - Designation and Nomination of Candidates.
  1. Nominations of candidates for elective village offices shall be made as provided in this section. 2. a. Party nominations of candidates for village offices...
• 15-110 - Election Districts.
  1. A village shall constitute a single election district for village elections. However, if at a general village election the number of votes cast exceeds...
• 15-112 - Registers and Poll-Books; How Used.
  For any village election where permanent personal registration records are not used, all copies of the register in the polling place shall be referred to,...
• 15-114 - Number of Voting Machines.
  Any village that uses voting machines for village elections shall provide one voting machine for each eight hundred or fraction thereof of qualified voters in...
• 15-116 - Inspectors of Election.
  1. The board of trustees shall, by resolution at least forty days prior to a general village election appoint two or four inspectors of election...
• 15-118 - Registration of Voters.
  1. In a village election conducted by the board of elections pursuant to a resolution adopted as provided in paragraph c of subdivision one of...
• 15-120 - Absentee Voting At Village Elections.
  1. A qualified voter of a village may vote as an absentee voter under this section if during all the hours of voting on the...
• 15-122 - Absentee Voting At Village Elections for Persons Unable to Appear Because of Illness or Physical Disability.
  1. A qualified elector of a village, who, on the occurrence of any general or special village election, may be within the county of his...
• 15-124 - Duties of Village Clerk.
  1. In addition to any duties of the village clerk specified in this chapter and the village law, the village clerk shall be the election...
• 15-126 - Canvass of Election.
  1. The inspectors of election of each election district shall, immediately upon the closing of the polls at each annual or biennial election, proceed to...
• 15-128 - Notice to Person Chosen to a Village Office.
  The clerk of the village shall, within three days after the election of a village officer, notify each person elected of his election, and of...
• 15-130 - Election of Trustees by Wards.
  The board of trustees of any village may, by resolution, and subject to a mandatory referendum, provide for the election of trustees by wards, alter...
• 15-132 - Votes Upon Propositions to Be by Ballot or Voting Machine.
  All votes upon a proposition submitted at a village election shall be by ballot unless the board of trustees of the village has adopted voting...
• 15-134 - Failure to Designate Terms.
  No election of village officers, held in any village, shall be invalid on account of the failure of the electors to designate in their ballots...
• 15-136 - Refusal of Officer to Surrender His Office.
  If a person who has been an officer of a village refuses or neglects to deliver to his successor in office, within ten days after...
• 15-138 - Judicial Review of Matters Relating to Village Elections.
  The supreme court or any justice thereof within the judicial district and the county court or any judge thereof within the county, in which the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019