NY Elec L § 5-215 (2021)
2021 New York Laws ELN - Election Article 5 - Registration and Enrollment of Voters Title 2 - Registration and Enrollment 5-215 - Veterans' Absentee Registration.

§ 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 residents 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 health administration hospital in which any veteran   entitled to vote in this state is a  resident  or  patient,  is  located   outside  the  State  of  New York, an application for an absentee ballot   signed  by  such  veteran  or  his  or  her  spouse,  parent  or   child   accompanying  or  being  with  him  or  her,  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 resident or patient of such hospital who wishes to   register  will  be able to do so. A complete application received from a   resident 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.