N.Y. Elec. Law § 8-100

§ 8-100. Elections; dates of and hours for voting. 1. * (a) A primary\nelection, to be known as the fall primary, shall be held on the first\nTuesday after the second Monday in September before every general\nelection unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature. Members\nof state and county committees and assembly district leaders and\nassociate assembly district leaders and all other party positions to be\nelected shall be elected at the fall primary and all nominations for\nstate and local public office required to be made at a primary election\nin such year shall be made at the fall primary. In the year two thousand\nsixteen in which electors of president and vice president of the United\nStates are to be elected, an additional primary election, to be known as\nthe presidential primary, shall be held on April nineteenth, two\nthousand sixteen, unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature,\nfor the purpose of electing delegates and alternate delegates to the\nnational convention.\n * NB Effective until December 31, 2016\n * (a) A primary election, to be known as the fall primary, shall be\nheld on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in September before\nevery general election unless otherwise changed by an act of the\nlegislature. In each year in which electors of president and vice\npresident of the United States are to be elected an additional primary\nelection, to be known as the spring primary, shall be held on the first\nTuesday in February unless otherwise changed by an act of the\nlegislature, for the purpose of electing delegates to the national\nconvention, members of state and county committees and assembly district\nleaders and associate assembly district leaders.\n * NB Effective December 31, 2016\n (b) In the event a run-off primary election is required in the city of\nNew York, it shall be held on the second Tuesday next succeeding the\ndate on which the initial primary election was held.\n (c) The general election shall be held annually on the Tuesday next\nsucceeding the first Monday in November.\n 2. Polls shall be open for voting during the following hours: a\nprimary election from twelve o'clock noon until nine o'clock in the\nevening, except in the city of New York and the counties of Nassau,\nSuffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Erie, and in such\ncity or county from six o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in the\nevening; the general election from six o'clock in the morning until nine\no'clock in the evening; a special election called by the governor\npursuant to the public officers law, and, except as otherwise provided\nby law, every other election, from six o'clock in the morning until nine\no'clock in the evening.\n 3. In any election district in which a primary of any party is\nuncontested, no primary of such party shall be held. In any election\ndistrict in which the primaries of all parties are uncontested on the\nday of any primary election, no primaries shall be held on such day and\nthe polling place shall not be opened for voting.\n 4. No primary, special or general election for any state or local\noffice or for the election of officers of any corporation which is\nfunded in whole or in part by federal, state or municipal moneys shall\nbe held on a Saturday or Sunday.\n