2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 8 - Conduct of Elections › Title 1 - Polling Places › 8-100 - Elections; Dates of and Hours for Voting.

§ 8-100. Elections; dates of and hours for voting. 1.  * (a) A primary
election  shall  be  held  on  the  fourth  Tuesday in June before every
general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the  legislature.
Members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders
and  associate  district  leaders  and  all  other party positions to be
elected shall be elected at such primary and all nominations for  public
office  required  to be made at a primary election in such year shall be
made at such primary. In the year  two  thousand  twenty-four  in  which
electors  of president and vice president of the United States are to be
elected an additional primary election, to be known as the  presidential
primary,  shall be held on April second, two thousand twenty-four unless
otherwise changed by an act of  the  legislature,  for  the  purpose  of
electing delegates and alternate delegates to the national convention.
* NB Effective until December 31, 2024
* (a)  A  primary election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
legislature.  Members  of  the  state and county committees and assembly
district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
positions  to  be  elected  shall  be  elected  at  such primary and all
nominations for public office required to be made at a primary  election
in  such  year  shall  be  made  at  such primary. In each year in which
electors of president and vice president of the United States are to  be
elected  an  additional  primary  election,  to  be  known as the spring
primary, shall be held on the first Tuesday in February unless otherwise
changed by an act of  the  legislature,  for  the  purpose  of  electing
delegates to the national convention.
* NB Effective December 31, 2024
(b) In the event a run-off primary election is required in the city of
New  York,  it  shall  be held on the fourth Tuesday next succeeding the
date on which the initial primary election was held.
(c) The general election shall be held annually on  the  Tuesday  next
succeeding the first Monday in November.
2.  Polls  shall  be  open  for  voting  during the following hours: a
primary election from six o'clock in the morning until nine  o'clock  in
the  evening; the general election from six o'clock in the morning until
nine o'clock in the evening; a special election called by  the  governor
pursuant  to  the public officers law, and, except as otherwise provided
by law, every other election, from six o'clock in the morning until nine
o'clock in the evening; early voting hours shall be as provided in title
six of this article. Early voting times shall be as provided in  section
8-600 of this article.
3.  In  any  election  district  in  which  a  primary of any party is
uncontested, no primary of such party shall be  held.  In  any  election
district  in  which  the primaries of all parties are uncontested on the
day of any primary election, no primaries shall be held on such day  and
the polling place shall not be opened for voting.
4.  No  primary,  special  or  general election for any state or local
office or for the election of  officers  of  any  corporation  which  is
funded  in  whole or in part by federal, state or municipal moneys shall
be held on a Saturday or Sunday.