Section 5-612. Registration records; use by town or village clerks and for school district, improvement district and fire district elections  


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      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.