$ 1182. Supreme court library; Riverhead. L. 1916, ch. 231. fuel and lights for such library and defray all incidental expenses for the care and management of same as well as the salary of a librarian. The amounts required therefor shall be paid by the treasurer of the county of Suffolk upon the certificate of a resident justice of the supreme court of the second judicial district, out of the moneys raised in such county for court expenses, which amounts shall be a county charge upon such county of Suffolk. The librarian shall be appointed by such board of trustees and shall hold office during their pleasure. Such trustees shall fix the salary of such librarian, which shall not exceed six hundred dollars per annum, and such salary shall be paid in equal monthly payments. (Added by L. 1916, ch. 231, in effect Apr. 17, 1916.) L. 1916, ch. 537. Definitions. § 3. ELECTION LAW. (L. 1909, ch. 22.) § 3. Definitions.-The terms used in this chapter shall have the signification herein defined unless other meaning is clearly apparent in language or context; 1. The term "general election" means the election held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November. 2. The term "official primary" or "official primary election" means a primary election held by a party for the purpose of nominating candidates for office or, electing persons to party positions and conducted by the public officers charged by law with the duty of conducting general elections. An "unofficial primary" or "unofficial primary election" means any other primary or primary election held by a party or independent body. 3. The term "primary day" means the day upon which an official primary election is held, as in this chapter provided. 4. The term "fall primary" means the official primary election held on the seventh Tuesday before the general election. 5. The term "spring primary" means the official primary election held on the first Tuesday in April in years when a president of the United States is to be elected. 6. The term "unit of representation" means any election district, town, ward of a city, assembly district, or any other political subdivision of the state, respectively, which is the unit from which members of any political committee or delegates to a party convention shall be elected as herein provided. 7. The term "custodian of primary records" means the officer or board whose duty it is by the provisions of this chapter to provide official ballots for general elections. 8. The term "board of elections" shall include a single commissioner of elections in a county having such an officer and the county clerk in any county which by the provisions of this chapter shall have no such board nor commissioner, except as otherwise provided in special provisions relating to any such county. 9. The term "party" means any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least ten thousand votes for governor. 10. The term "nomination" means the selection in accordance with the provisions of this chapter of a candidate for office authorized to be filled at a general election or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office. $ 6. Voting booths and enrollment boxes. L. 1916, ch. 537. 11. The term "designation" means any method in accordance with the provisions of this chapter by which candidates for party nominations, or for election as party committeemen or delegates, may be named in order that they may be placed upon the official ballot for any official primary election. 12. The term "official primary ballot" means the ballot prepared, printed and supplied for use at an official primary election in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. 13. The term "party position" means membership in a party committee or the position of delegate or alternate to a national party convention. 14. The term "committee" means any committee chosen, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to represent the members of a party in any political subdivision of the state. 15. The term "independent body" means any organization or association of citizens which, by independent certificate, nominates candidates for office to be voted for at a general, special or village election, or town meeting, and which, if such independent body nominated a candidate for governor at the preceding general election of a governor, did not poll at least ten thousand votes for its candidate for such office. 16. The term "party nomination" means the selection by a party of a candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 17. The term "independent nomination" means the selection of a candidate by an independent body for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 18. The term "party candidate" or "party nominee" means a person who is selected by a party to be its candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 19. The term "independent candidate" or "independent nominee" means a person who is selected by an independent body to be its candidate for an office authorized to be filled at a general election, or at a special election held to fill a vacancy in such office, or at a town meeting. 20. The term "enrollment books," when applied to those used in a city of over one million inhabitants, means registers of electors in which party enrollments of voters are entered or provided for in additional columns. (Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649, renumbered and amended by L. 1911, ch. 891, amended by L. 1913, ch. 820, L. 1915, ch. 678, L. 1916, ch. 537, § 1, in effect May 15, 1916.) § 6. Voting booths and enrollment boxes.-The custodian of primary records shall cause at least two voting booths of the same kind and description as voting booths used at general elections, to be erected in each place L. 1916, ch. 537. Enrollment blanks. § 7. of registration before the first day of registration in each year, and such booths shall be and remain in said places of registration during the registration at the regular meetings for registration during that year; and it shall be the duty of the custodian of primary records to furnish in each voting booth so erected the same articles as are required by law to be placed therein for a general election, which articles shall remain therein during such registration. He shall also provide in like manner one enrollment box in each place of registration of sufficient capacity to hold all the enrollment blanks which are to be furnished for such place of registration, which shall be similar to the ballot boxes prescribed by law to be used at a general election. He shall also in like manner provide at each polling place on general election day, in each election district wholly outside of a city or village having five thousand inhabitants or more, or partly within and partly outside of any such village, two such voting booths, for the enrollment of voters, the needed articles therefor, and an enrollment box, as above provided. (Renumbered and amended by L. 1911, ch. 891, and amended by L. 1916, ch. 537, § 2, in effecct May 15, 1916.) § 7. Enrollment blanks.-There shall also be prepared by the custodian of primary records at public expense, to be borne in the same manner as the expense of furnishing official ballots, and delivered by such custodian with the enrollment books, such number of enrollment blanks for each election district as will exceed by seventy-five the total number of voters registered in such district. The enrollment blanks shall be printed on white paper, and on the face thereof shall be printed the following, or the substance thereof, the blanks to be filled in in type so far as possible: "Primary enrollment for the year.. city (or village or town) of....... ; county of.... sembly district (or ward or town); enrollment number... "I. Name of voter. as .. election district; who have placed a mark underneath the party emblem hereunder of my choice, do solemnly declare that I have this day registered as a voter for the next ensuing election, (or, if the voter was duly registered otherwise than personally, that 'I have this day voted in the above election district') and that I am a qualified voter of the election district in which I have so registered (or voted), and that my residence address is as stated by me at the time I so registered (or, if registration was not personal, a statement of the voter's present address); that I am in general sympathy with the principles of the party which I have designated by my mark hereunder; that it is my intention. to support generally at the next general election, state or national, the nominees of such party for state or national offices, and that I have not enrolled with or participated in any primary election or convention of any other party since the first day of last January. The word 'party' $ 8. Delivery of enrollment blanks. L. 1916, ch. 537. as used herein means a political organization which at the last preceding election of a governor, polled at least ten thousand votes for governor. Party (Insert emblem.) ... Party. (Insert emblem.) "Make a cross X mark, with a pencil having black lead, in the circle under the emblem of the party with which you wish to enroll, for the purpose of participating in its primary elections during the next year." The circles underneath the emblem shall be three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and in them nothing shall be printed. The party emblems shall be the same as those which were on the ballots for each party respectively at the last preceding general election, and such emblems shall be so arranged on each blank that the emblem of the majority party at the last preceding general election of a governor shall be first, and the other emblems shall follow in order in accordance with the vote cast for such office at such election; over each emblem shall be printed, in type clearly legible, the name of the party represented by such emblem. The enrollment blanks shall have thereon only the emblems of those parties to which this article is applicable. (Renumbered and amended by L. 1911, ch. 891, and amended by L. 1913, ch. 820, and L. 1916, ch. 537, § 3, in effect May 15, 1916.) § 8. Delivery of enrollment blanks to voters on days of registration.— When, in any political subdivision of the state, a voter shall, at any of the regular meetings for registration in any year, present himself personally to the board of election inspectors in any election district for registration, or if, where his registration was not required to be personal and he was registered without personal application, he shall present himself personally to such board for enrollment only, his name and residence address shall be entered at the proper place in the two original enrollment books for that district. After he shall have been registered, and not before, as a qualified voter of that election district for the next ensuing general election, the board of election inspectors, or a member thereof, shall forthwith and before such voter leaves the place of registration, enter his enrollment number, beginning with number one for the first voter enrolled on the first day, and so on in numerical order, opposite his name, in the first column of the registration books and the enrollment books, and shall write the name of the voter on the blank having the enrollment number which shall be opposite his name on the registration and enrollment books, and shall fill in the other blank spaces on the enrollment blank, and shall deliver to such voter an enrollment blank having his name on it. No voter shall be given more than two enrollment blanks in any event, nor more than one blank unless he shall spoil, deface, improperly mark, or otherwise destroy the first blank given him. In case a second blank is given him, the member of the board of election inspectors in charge of the enrollment books shall draw a line through such voter's enrollment number in the first |