Section 5-215. Veterans' absentee registration

1. The board of elections in
  the  county  in  which  a  veterans' hospital is located shall appoint a
  board of registration which shall attend each veterans' hospital between
  the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening
  on the seventh Thursday before each general election and, in  the  event
  that  it  be  necessary for the completion of its duties, on the seventh
  Friday before such election except that if any of the religious holidays
  of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas Torah, Shmini Atzereth or  Succoth
  shall  fall  on  such  days, such registration shall be held on the next
  regular business day which does  not  fall  on  any  of  such  religious
  holidays,  and  shall receive from inmates or patients therein, or their
  spouses, parents and children, the  applications  of  such  of  them  as
  desire and are qualified to be registered by absentee registration.
    2.  After the applicant completes and signs the application, or has it
  signed for him, it shall be deposited by or for him in an  envelope  and
  sealed.  Before  receiving  the next application the board shall address
  the envelope to the board of elections in the county where the applicant
  resides and note upon a form provided for such purpose the date  of  the
  application,  the  name  and  residence address of the applicant and the
  name of the hospital at which the application was received.
    3. At the end of each day each member of such  board  shall  sign  the
  form  containing  the  list of applicants with their names and addresses
  and they shall, no later than the next day,  return  the  list  and  the
  sealed  envelopes  to  the  board  of elections in the county where such
  hospital is located.
    4. The board of elections upon  receipt  of  such  applications  shall
  immediately  mail those applications that are addressed to another board
  of elections and shall process those applications addressed to it.
    5. If  a  Veterans'  Administration  Hospital  in  which  any  veteran
  entitled  to  vote  in  this  state  is an inmate or patient, is located
  outside the State of New York, an application  for  an  absentee  ballot
  signed  by  such  veteran or his spouse, parent or child accompanying or
  being with him, if a qualified voter and a resident of the same election
  district, shall constitute permanent personal registration.
    6. All applications made and received pursuant to this  section  shall
  be  processed in the manner provided herein for personal registration by
  mail.
    7. The cost incurred by the county in which such veterans' hospital is
  located, for the registration of  voters  as  herein  provided,  may  be
  apportioned to the counties in which such voters reside in proportion to
  the  number  of  applicants  for  such  registration  residing  in  such
  counties.
    8. The board of elections shall not be required to  send  a  board  of
  central registration to each veterans' hospital in such county, pursuant
  to the provisions of this section, if, in lieu thereof, it shall provide
  such  hospital  with  mail  registration application forms in sufficient
  quantity so that each inmate or patient of such hospital who  wishes  to
  register  will be able to do so. A complete application received from an
  inmate or patient whose residence is in a county other than  the  county
  in which the hospital is located shall be immediately transmitted to the
  appropriate board of elections.