New York Laws
Title 6 - Filing and Custody of Registration Records
5-612 - Registration Records; Use by Town or Village Clerks and for School District, Improvement District and Fire District Elections.

§ 5-612. Registration records; use by town or village clerks and for
school district, improvement district and fire district elections. 1.
The board of elections shall, not later than the twentieth day before a
special town election and not later than the seventh day before a
village election conducted by the village clerk, provide a list of
registered voters or shall place registration poll records in properly
locked ledgers in the temporary custody of the town or village clerk for
the purpose of permitting him to copy such records or to deliver such
records for village election purposes to the board of inspectors of the
several polling places in the election districts as provided by this
chapter. The board of elections shall indicate on such list, or on a
separate accompanying list, the names of those voters whose registration
records have been marked "permanently disabled". The names of voters in
inactive status shall appear on a separate accompanying list. Voters
listed in inactive status who appear at the polls to vote shall be
challenged in the manner provided by section 8-504 of this chapter.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections nineteen hundred six,
twenty hundred fourteen and twenty-six hundred six of the education law
with respect to registration of voters, any person, otherwise qualified
to vote who is registered under the provisions of this article shall be
entitled to vote at all school district meetings or elections without
further registration.

3. Whenever a school district meeting or election is scheduled, the
board of elections for the appropriate county or counties shall deliver
the registration lists, indicating on such list, or on a separate
accompanying list, the names of those voters whose registration record
has been marked "permanently disabled", and, on a separate accompanying
list, the names of voters in inactive status who shall be challenged if
they appear at the polls to vote, for the appropriate election districts
or those portions of the election districts encompassing the school
district to the appropriate officials of such school district as soon as
possible upon request of the appropriate officials, but no later than
the thirty days immediately prior to the regularly scheduled school
district election, provided further, that such board of elections shall
deliver no later than ten days prior to each such special or regular
school district election supplemental registration lists containing the
names of those voters who have registered after delivery of the first
registration lists and who are eligible to vote in such elections,
indicating on such list or on a separate accompanying list the names of
those voters whose registration record has been marked "permanently
disabled".

4. Within five days of the adoption by a board of education of a
resolution in accordance with subdivisions one and three of section two
thousand fourteen of the education law, such board of education shall
notify the appropriate board of elections of such adoption.

5. The board of education of a school district which has adopted such
a resolution shall, not less than forty-five days before each regularly
scheduled school district meeting or election and fourteen days before
any such special meeting or election notify the board of elections of
the date of such meeting or election.

6. The board of elections, upon the request of the board of
commissioners of an improvement district which elects commissioners or a
fire district shall, not later than the twenty-first day before each
election in such district, deliver to the secretary of such district a
list of persons registered to vote as of the twenty-third day before
such election in the election districts contained in such district,
indicating on such list the names of the voters in inactive status, or
shall place the registration poll records for such election districts in

properly locked ledgers in the temporary custody of such district
secretary for the purpose of permitting him to copy such records. Any
voter listed in inactive status who appears at the polls to vote, shall
be challenged.

7. The appropriate official of each town, village, school district,
improvement district or fire district which obtains a list of registered
voters from the board of elections pursuant to the provisions of this
section shall deliver the list containing the names of the voters in
inactive status or, at the discretion of such official, a photocopy of
such list to the board of elections not later than one week after the
election at which the list was used with an indication of which voters
listed in inactive status on such list voted at the election for which
the list was prepared. If such official delivered the original list, the
board of elections shall return such list to the official from whom it
was received within three weeks thereafter.