N.Y. GCT Law § 8
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Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions are submitted to all the voters of a city
Official statutory text
§ 8. Law applicable to conduct of elections at which ballot questions\nare submitted to all the voters of a city. The provisions of the\nelection law or any other law relating to the submission of questions at\ngeneral elections, so far as the same are applicable and not\ninconsistent with this chapter, shall apply to the conduct of all\nelections at which questions are submitted to all the voters of a city.\nWhere a specific provision of law exists in any other law which is\ninconsistent with the provisions of the election law, such provision\nshall apply unless a provision of the election law specifies that such\nprovision of the election law shall apply notwithstanding any other\nprovision of law.\n
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