2019 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 4 - Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections
4-136 - Election Expenses; Payment Of.

§  4-136.  Election expenses; payment of. 1. Except as provided for in
  subdivision two of this  section,  the  expenses  of  providing  polling
  places,  voting  booths,  supplies  therefor,  ballot  boxes  and  other
  furniture for the polling place for any election, including the storage,
  transportation  and  maintenance  of  voting  machines,  appliances  and
  equipment  or  ballot  counting  devices,  and  the  compensation of the
  election officers in each election district, shall be a charge upon  the
  county  in  which such election district is situated, except in the city
  of New York where such expenses shall be a charge upon the city  of  New
  York.
2.  All expenses incurred under this chapter by the board of elections
  of a county outside of the city of New York shall be  a  charge  against
  the  county  and  in  the  city of New York the expenses of the board of
  elections shall be a charge against such city. The expenses incurred  by
  the  board  of  elections  of a county outside the city of New York may,
  pursuant to section 3-226 of this  chapter,  be  apportioned  among  the
  cities  and  towns  therein,  or  in the case of a village election held
  other than at  the  time  of  the  fall  primary  or  general  election,
  apportioned to such villages therein.
3.  In  the  city  of  New  York  all  leased  or purchased equipment,
  supplies, ballots, printing and publications, except  newspaper  notices
  and  advertisements,  to  be  used  or  furnished  by such board, may be
  procured for it by the purchasing department or agency of such  city  as
  if  such board were an agency of such city. Such board shall comply with
  the rules and regulations of the New York city procurement policy  board
  and applicable state law.