Section 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.