New York Laws
Article 4 - Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections
4-130 - Supplies for Registration; Manner and Time of Delivery.

§ 4-130. Supplies for registration; manner and time of delivery. 1.
Before it is sent from the office or branch office of the board of
elections, each ledger or binder of blank registration records shall be
locked in a distinctively numbered carrying case. Such board shall place
the key for such carrying case in a sealed envelope on which shall be
written or printed the number of the carrying case. No such case or key
shall be delivered to any person who is not designated in this chapter
as a person entitled to receive it. Any person to whom any such case or
key shall be delivered shall give a receipt therefor to the person
delivering it. Such receipt shall recite the official title or capacity
of the person receiving it and, in each instance, the distinctive number
identifying it. After leaving the board of elections no such case shall
be unlocked except at the time and in the manner provided in this
chapter.

2. a. Except in the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester, the
board of elections shall deliver at its office to each town or city
clerk in its county not more than five days before the beginning of
local registration, the registration record forms, supplies and
equipment required for local registration and such clerks shall deliver
the same to the several boards of inspectors within such town or city
approximately one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning such
registration.

b. In the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester the board of
elections shall deliver such material to the boards of inspectors at
least one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning local
registration.

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