2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 12 - Presidential Electors and Federal Elected Officers › Title 4 - Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote › 12-402 - Adoption and Text of Compact.

* §  12-402.  Adoption  and  text  of compact. The agreement among the
  states to elect the president by national popular vote  is  adopted  and
  enacted into law as follows:
ARTICLE I
Membership.  Any  state  of  the  United  States  and  the District of
  Columbia may  become  a  member  of  this  agreement  by  enacting  this
  agreement.
ARTICLE II
Right  of  the  people in member states to vote for president and vice
  president. Each member state shall conduct a statewide popular  election
  for president and vice president of the United States.
ARTICLE III
Manner  of appointing presidential electors in member states. 1. Prior
  to the time set by law for the meeting and voting  by  the  presidential
  electors,  the  chief  election  official  of  each  member  state shall
  determine the number of votes for each presidential slate in each  state
  of the United States and in the District of Columbia in which votes have
  been  cast  in  a  statewide  popular  election and shall add such votes
  together  to  produce  a  "national  popular  vote   total"   for   each
  presidential slate.
2.  The  chief  election official of each member state shall designate
  the presidential slate with the largest national popular vote  total  as
  the "national popular vote winner".
3.  The  presidential elector certifying official of each member state
  shall certify the appointment  in  that  official's  own  state  of  the
  elector  slate  nominated in that state in association with the national
  popular vote winner.
4. At least six days before the day fixed by law for the  meeting  and
  voting  by  the  presidential  electors,  each member state shall make a
  final determination of the number of popular votes cast in the state for
  each presidential slate and shall communicate an official  statement  of
  such  determination  within  twenty-four  hours  to  the  chief election
  official of each other member state.
5. The chief election official of each member  state  shall  treat  as
  conclusive  an official statement containing the number of popular votes
  in a state for each presidential slate made by the  day  established  by
  federal  law  for  making a state's final determination conclusive as to
  the counting of electoral votes by congress.
6. In event of a  tie  for  the  national  popular  vote  winner,  the
  presidential  elector  certifying  official  of  each member state shall
  certify the appointment of the elector slate  nominated  in  association
  with  the  presidential  slate  receiving  the largest number of popular
  votes within that official's own state.
7. If, for any reason, the number of presidential  electors  nominated
  in  a  member state in association with the national popular vote winner
  is less than or greater than that state's number of electoral votes, the
  presidential  candidate  on  the  presidential  slate  that   has   been
  designated  as  the national popular vote winner shall have the power to
  nominate the presidential electors  for  that  state  and  that  state's
  presidential  elector  certifying official shall certify the appointment
  of such nominees.
8. The chief election official of each member state shall  immediately
  release to the public all vote counts or statements of votes as they are
  determined or obtained.
9.  This article shall govern the appointment of presidential electors
  in each member state in any year in which this  agreement  is,  on  July
  twentieth, in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the
  electoral votes.
ARTICLE IV
Other  provisions.  This  agreement  shall  take  effect  when  states
  cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes  have  enacted
  this agreement in substantially the same form and the enactments by such
  states  have  taken  effect in each state. Any member state may withdraw
  from this agreement, except that a withdrawal occurring  six  months  or
  less  before  the  end  of a president's term shall not become effective
  until a president or vice president shall have been qualified  to  serve
  the  next  term. The chief executive of each member state shall promptly
  notify the chief executive of all other states of  when  this  agreement
  has been enacted and has taken effect in that official's state, when the
  state  has  withdrawn from this agreement, and when this agreement takes
  effect generally.
This agreement shall terminate if the electoral college is abolished.
If any provision of this agreement  is  held  invalid,  the  remaining
  provisions shall not be affected.
ARTICLE V
Definitions. For purposes of this agreement:
1.  "Chief executive" shall mean the governor of a state of the United
  States or the mayor of the District of Columbia.
2. "Elector slate" shall mean a slate  of  candidates  who  have  been
  nominated  in  a  state  for  the  position  of  presidential elector in
  association with a presidential slate.
3. "Chief election official" shall mean the  state  official  or  body
  that is authorized to certify the total number of popular votes for each
  presidential slate.
4. "Presidential elector" shall mean an elector for president and vice
  president of the United States.
5.  "Presidential  elector  certifying  official" shall mean the state
  official or body that is authorized to certify the  appointment  of  the
  state's presidential electors.
6.  "Presidential  slate" shall mean a slate of two persons, the first
  of whom has been nominated as a candidate for president  of  the  United
  States and the second of whom has been nominated as a candidate for vice
  president of the United States, or any legal successors to such persons,
  regardless  of  whether both names appear on the ballot presented to the
  voter in a particular state.
7. "State" shall mean a state of the United States and the District of
  Columbia.
8. "Statewide popular election" shall mean a general election in which
  votes are cast for presidential slates by individual voters and  counted
  on a statewide basis.
* NB  Effective  upon  notification  by  the commissioner of the state
  board of elections upon the occurence of the adoption of  the  agreement
  among  the states to elect the president by national popular vote by two
  or more states.