place of registration is in a schoolhouse, or other public building, authorized to be so used under subdivision three of section two hundred and ninety-nine, such public copy shall be left in the custody of the janitor or some other person in charge of the building, who shall be responsible therefor, and a notice shall be kept publicly posted stating how inspection thereof is to be obtained.

2. Each other inspector shall carefully preserve his register of voters and shall be responsible therefor, until the close of the canvass of the votes on election day, except as hereinafter provided for in cities of the first class.

3. At the close of each day of registration the inspectors shall draw a line in ink immediately below the name of the voter last entered upon each page of each such register. Upon the succeeding day of registration, they shall enter the names of voters in the alphabetical order of the first letter of the surname below the line so drawn upon the proper page after the close of the previous day of registration.

4. Upon the close of the last day of registration, the inspectors shall again carefully compare all the books of registration, to see that they are identical as to their contents, other than as to enrollment entries and numbers, and that the two registers used for party enrollments are identical as to such enrollment entries and numbers, and shall certify as a board in the proper place provided therefor upon each such register that such register is a true and correct register of persons registered by them in such district for the next ensuing election, and shall state the whole number of such persons so registered.

Derivation: Election Law, § 35, pt. of subd. 2, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 9: L. 1899, ch. 630, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 10: L. 1905, ch. 643, § 8. Amended by L. 1915, ch. 678; L. 1919, ch. 504, in effect Oct. 1, 1919.

Concealing registry lists. One who induces or procures a board of registry to conceal the lists of voters and refuses the public access to them is equally guilty with the inspectors of a violation of law. People v. McKane (1894), 143 N. Y. 455. Filing of registration books. See Report of Atty.-Gen. (1899), 362,

§ 178. Custody and filing of registers after registration in cities of first class. 1. In cities of the first class, at the close of the last day of registration, the chairman of the board of inspectors shall take from an inspector of opposite political faith from himself, the register of voters made by such inspector, and deliver it to the police, who forthwith shall file the same, if in the city of New York, with the board of elections in the borough of Manhattan, and with the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough, and if in any other city, with the commissioner of elections. Such registers so filed shall be a part of the records of the offices in which they are filed. The two other inspectors of opposite political faith from each other shall retain their respective registers of voters for use on election day, except as provided in subdivision two of this section.

2. In the city of New York at the close of each day of registration the chairman of the board of inspectors shall take the signature copy of the register of voters and the book of identification statements for registration day and deliver them to the police, for safe keeping in the station house of the police precinct in which the polling place is located. The police shall return the same to the inspector having charge thereof immediately before the hour of the beginning of the next meeting for rgistration or of the opening of polls on election day. Such inspector shall also be entitled to the possession of such register and book whenever necessary under the provisions of section one hundred and fifty-three of this chapter, and the board of elections shall be entitled to the delivery to it of such register and book upon demand.

3. All registers of voters shall at all reasonable hours be accessible for public examination and making copies thereof, and no charge of any kind shall be made for such examination or for allowing any voter to make a copy thereof. In cities of the first class the public copy of registration shall be used, if necessary, on election day by the inspector whose register was filed by the chairman as herein provided.

Derivation: Election Law, § 35, pt. of subd. 2, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, $9; L. 1899, ch. 630, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 10; L. 1905, ch. 643, § 8. Amended by L. 1917, ch. 703, in effect June 1, 1917.

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Consolidators' note. - The sentence making it a felony to alter, etc., the public copy of the register is placed in section 184, with other penal provisions.

§ 179. Certifying changes in registers.

If, in cities, the board of inspectors shall meet on the second Saturday before the election for the purpose of revising and correcting the register of voters in pursuance of an order of the supreme court, a justice thereof or a county judge, as provided in section one hundred and fifty-three of this article, the inspectors shall certify forthwith to the officer with whom the copy of the register is filed the change or changes made upon such register in pursuance of such order. At any revision of registration for an election other than a general election, the quadruplicate register of voters for the last preceding general election shall be furnished to the inspectors of election by the officer or board having the custody thereof, and the inspectors shall certify to the officer or board in cities of the first class with whom the registers are filed the changes, additions or alterations made in such registers for such election.

Derivation: Election Law, § 35, pt. of subd. 2, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 9; L. 1899, ch. 630, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 10; L. 1905, ch. 643, § 8. § 180. Custody of registers after election.

At the close of the canvass of the votes of any election, or within twenty-four hours thereafter, all copies of the register of electors used at such election by the inspectors and the public copy thereof, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall be filed with the board of elections of the county in which the election district is located and in the city of New York with the office located in the borough of Manhattan, and with the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough of the city of New York. In towns, one copy of such register shall be filed by the inspectors with the town clerk and the other copies with the board. of elections. It shall be the duty of any such board of elections, and clerk of a branch office in a borough, with whom registers of the election districts are filed as provided in this section, to forthwith file one copy of each such register for each election district, exclusive of copies used for party enrollments, with the state superintendent of elections, but the copy for such superintendent, if made for a district in which personal registration is required and if the poll-book is part of the register, shall be the one containing the signatures of electors made on election day. Registers of electors shall be carefully preserved for use, when needed, at any election or official primary which may be held or ordered in either of such counties or cities, respectively, prior to the next ensuing general election.

Derivation: Election Law, § 35, pt. of subd. 2, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 9; L. 1899, ch. 630, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 10; L. 1905, ch. 643, § 8. Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678; L. 1918, ch. 323; L. 1919, ch. 504, in effect Oct. 1, 1919.

§ 181. Certifying number of registered electors.

At the close of registration on the last day the board of inspectors shall upon blanks furnished by the secretary of state forthwith

certify and file with or mail to the officer or board charged with the duty of furnishing ballots to such district and to the state supertendent of elections the total number of electors registered in such district. The inspectors of each district shall also furnish to the same officials in like manner at the close of each day of registration the total number of electors registered on such day in their respective districts. The chairman of the board of inspectors of election of each district shall also forthwith at the close of each day of registration file with or mail to the state superintendent of elections a certificate showing the total number of voters registered therein in the respective election districts.

Derivation: Election Law, § 35, subd. 3, as amended by L. 1899, ch. 630, § 9. Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678, in effect May 22, 1915. Forms. As to forms of certificates of total number of registered voters, see Forms (part 12, post).

§ 182. Delivery of blank books for registration and enrollment; certificates and instructions.

The secretary of state shall purchase whenever he deems it desirable for the best interests of the state, a suitable number of blank books for registration and enrollment of voters, and known as registers, in the forms respectively provided in sections one hundred and fifty-five and one hundred and fifty-six, with blank certificates and declarations described in sections twelve, thirteen, one hundred and seventy-six, and one hundred and seventy-seven, and brief instructions for registering and enrolling the names of voters and for recording the vote in registers for use outside of a city of one million inhabitants, attached to such books, at least four of such books, with the attached blanks and instructions, for each board of inspectors in the state, and such number of extra copies thereof as in his judgment may be necessary for each county or city to replace lost or damaged registers before delivery to the inspectors. Such register of voters shall have the leaves thereof indexed with the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letter "A" for the first leaf, and so on. At least twenty days prior to the first day of registration for a general election in each year, the secretary of state shall transmit a sufficient number of such registers, certificates, declarations and instructions to the board of elections of each county, and to the board of elections of the city of New York located in the borough of Manhattan, and to the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough within the city of New York, for the use of each

board of inspectors within such counties and boroughs, respectively. The board of elections of each county, outside the city of New York, shall deliver such books to the town clerks of each - town and to the city clerk of each city in the county, by mail or otherwise, at least five days prior to the first day of registration, and such town clerks and city clerks, and the said board of elections and chief clerks of branch offices of the board of elections in the city of New York, shall deliver such books to the inspectors of said towns, cities and boroughs, respectively, before the hour set for registering the names of voters on the first day of registration. On each day of registration the board of elections of the city of New York and of each county shall furnish to each board of inspectors in each such county or city, respectively, the blanks for the list of voters provided for in section one hundred and fiftyseven of this article. Such blanks shall be distributed in time and manner as above provided for the distribution of registers.

Derivation: Election Law, § 36, subd. 1, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 11; L. 1905, ch. 643, § 9.

Amended by L. 1916, ch. 537; L. 1919, ch. 504, in effect Oct. 1, 1919. Certificate of independent nomination of ward officers.- The provision of this section requiring one hundred electors to join in making a certificate for the independent nomination of ward officers in a city is not so unreasonable as to justify the court in declaring it unconstitutional. Matter of Independent Certificate (Aldermen of Cohoes) (1912), 78 Misc. 87.

§ 182-a. Special instructions to voters to be prepared for the year nineteen hundred and fourteen.

Added by L. 1914, ch. 243. Repealed by L. 1918, ch. 323, in effect Apr. 24, 1918.

§ 183. Delivery of previous registers to inspectors.

Each town clerk with whom registers of the last preceding general election in any election district, elsewhere than in a city or wholly within a village having five thousand inhabitants or more, shall have been filed, shall cause a copy of such register, used by a poll-clerk at such election for the entries provided for in section three hundred and fifty-five, to be delivered to the board of inspectors of such district at the opening of its first meeting for the registration for any election.

If a new election district shall have been formed in a town since such general election, the board of elections of the county in which such town is located shall, before the first meeting for registration thereafter in such new election district, make a certified copy of each register for such general election of each election district out of which such new district shall have been formed, and shall cause such certified copy to be delivered to the board of inspectors of such new election district at the open

ing of such meeting for registration. Such board of inspectors, at such meeting, shall place upon the register of voters all persons whose names are upon such copies who are qualified to vote in such election district at the election for which such meeting is held, except the names of persons who are required to personally appear for registration.

If a new election district shall have been formed in a city since such general election, the clerk or board with whom the register of voters for such last preceding general election shall have been filed shall, before the meeting of the inspectors of election of such new district for registration for any other election, make a certified copy of each register of voters for such last preceding general election of each election district out of which such new election district is formed, and the inspectors of such new election district shall, at such meeting for registration for such election, place upon the register of voters the names of all persons upon such copies who are qualified to vote in such election district at the election for which such meeting is held. Derivation: Election Law, § 36, subd. 2.

Amended by L. 1918, ch. 323; L. 1919, ch. 504, in effect Oct. 1, 1919.

§ 184. Penalties.

Any applicant for registration, inspector or other person who shall incorporate or cause to be incorporated any false statement in any challenge or other affidavit required for or made or filed in connection with registration or voting, shall be deemed guilty of perjury. Except as provided in this article any person who shall wilfully suppress, alter, destroy or mutilate any signed challenge or other affidavit or official copy thereof shall be deemed guilty of a felony. Any person knowingly taking a false oath before the board of inspectors shall upon conviction thereof be punished as for wilful and corrupt perjury. Any person who shall alter, mutilate, destroy or remove from the place of registration the public copy of registration shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be punished upon conviction thereof by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than two nor more than five years, unless otherwise provided by law.

Any person who signs and mails or delivers to the custodian of primary records an enrollment blank as provided in this chapter, which shall be false in any respect or with intent to mislead, or