2006 New York Code - Party Designation; Statewide Office.

 
    §  6-104. Party designation; statewide office. 1. Party designation of
  a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters  of
  the entire state shall be made by the state committee.
    2.  The  state  committee  shall make a decision by majority vote. The
  person receiving the majority  vote  shall  be  the  party's  designated
  candidate  for nomination, and all other persons who shall have received
  twenty-five percent or more of the vote cast on any  ballot  shall  have
  the  right to make written demand, duly acknowledged, to the state board
  of elections that their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates
  for such nomination. Such demand shall be made not later than seven days
  after such meeting and may  be  withdrawn  in  the  same  manner  within
  fourteen days after such meeting.
    3.  In the absence of a party rule forming and designating the members
  of a committee to fill any vacancy in designations which may occur after
  the state committee has adjourned its meeting  and  before  the  primary
  election, the state committee shall also enact a resolution forming such
  a committee and selecting the members of same.
    4.  Upon  the  vote  for  such  designation,  each member of the state
  committee shall be entitled to cast a number of votes which shall be  in
  accordance  with  the ratio which the number of votes cast for the party
  candidate for governor on the line or column of the party  at  the  last
  preceding  general  state election in the unit of representation of such
  member bears to the total vote cast on  such  line  or  column  at  such
  election  for  such candidate in the entire state.  The apportionment of
  such votes as so prescribed shall be determined  by  the  rules  of  the
  party.
    5.  Enrolled  members  of  the  party  may  make other designations by
  petition for a member of the same party.
    6. The meeting of the state committee for the purpose  of  designating
  candidates  shall  be  held  not earlier than twenty-one days before the
  first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first day
  to sign designating petitions for the primary election.
    7. Within four days after such meeting, the state committee shall file
  with the state board of elections.
    (a) The names of persons who have  received  the  designation  of  the
  state  committee  and  the offices for which designated, and the name of
  each person who received twenty-five percent or more, of the vote on any
  ballot and the offices for which they received such vote.
    (b) The names of  the  persons  selected  as  the  committee  to  fill
  vacancies  or  a certified copy of the party rule forming and empowering
  such a committee to fill vacancies.
    8. No person may be designated by a state committee for more than  one
  statewide office pursuant to the provisions of this section.