sided therein, and such other information as may be deemed necessary by said superintendent, and said superintendent shall have the power whenever deemed necessary by him to require said owner or said lessee in addition to notify said superintendent whenever any of said male persons shall within twentynine days before election leave said hotel, inn, lodging-house and dwelling. Said superintendent shall have the power to require said list to be made by the owner if said owner is in possession. If said owner is not in possession said superintendent shall have the power to require said owner to furnish the name of the lessee and lessees of said building and said superintendent shall then have the power to require said list of said lessee and lessees. In the event that said building is occupied in part by said owner and in part by a lessee or lessees the said superintendent shall then have the power to compel the owner to furnish the said list for the part occupied by him, and the names of the lessee or lessees who lease the remaining part of said building, and said superintendent may require said lists from said lessee or lessees. In the event of the neglect of the owner or lessee to furnish said list when demanded by said superintendent of elections said owner or lessee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars, and in case of a second conviction shall be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars and imprisonment. If the owner furnishes to said superintendent a list which states that a male person has resided in said premises for a longer period than he has actually resided therein, or if said person puts upon said list a name under which no person has resided any length of time in said premises, said owner shall be guilty of a felony and in addition liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, which said penalty shall be a lien upon the house and the lot upon which the house is situated. If the lessee furnishes a false list then the said lessee shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars, which said penalty, in addition to being satisfied out of any goods or chattels of the lessee, shall be a lien upon the leasehold, and shall entitle said leasehold to be sold to satisfy said penalty subject to the rights of the landlord. Every penalty imposed herein upon a house or leasehold shall be a lien upon the house and lot or leasehold in relation to which the penalty is imposed from the time of filing of a certified copy of the judgment in the office of the clerk of the county in which said house and lot or leasehold is situated, subject only to taxes, assessments, water rates and to such mortgages and mechanics' liens as may exist thereon prior to such filing, and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting officer upon the entry of said judgment to forthwith file the copy as aforesaid in the office of the clerk of the county and said copy upon said filing shall be forthwith indexed by the clerk in the index of mechanics' liens. A lis pendens may be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the realty or leasehold is situated at the time of the commencement of the proceedings under this section. § 485. Card lists of registered voters. In any city within the metropolitan elections district, the board of inspectors of each election district shall on each day of registration transfer to cards, to be provided for that purpose by the secretary of state, which cards shall be in form and style approved by the state superintendent of elections, a complete copy of the name of each person registered in their respective districts, together with all of the answers made and information given by the person registered, at the time of registration, and such cards, inclosed and sealed in a cover to be provided for that purpose by the secretary of state, shall be delivered forthwith by the chairman of the board of inspectors together with a statement on a blank form, to be furnished by the secretary of state after approval by the state superintendent of elections, that the cards delivered contain a correct copy of all the names registered and information given by the persons so registered, to the police, who shall forthwith deliver the same to the state superintendent of elections at his office. § 486. Removal of deputies. The state superintendent of elections may remove at any time for cause a deputy appointed by him and shall employ in his place a member of the same political party, which appointment shall be made in the same manner as the original appointment. This section shall not apply to the chief deputy superintendent, nor to the deputies authorized in section four hundred and seventy-four of this article. § 487. Salaries and expenses. The annual salary of the state superintendent of elections shall be five thousand dollars; of his chief deputy, four thousand five hundred dollars; of the clerk, eighteen hundred dollars; of the secretary, two thousand dol lars; of the stenographer, fifteen hundred dollars; of not more than fifty of the deputies appointed under section four hundred and seventy-four of this article, twelve hundred dollars each; of not more than fifty of the deputies appointed under section four hundred and seventy-four of this article, nine hundred dollars each; payable monthly. All other deputies shall receive five dollars for cach day's service, not exceeding forty days for any one election, to be paid on the certificate of the superintendent or chief deputy, provided, however, that the superintendent may continue the services of such deputies not longer than December thirty-first of such year if he shall in his judgment deem it necessary so to do in order to prosecute any criminal actions in which said deputies shall be the complaining witnesses or if their services be, in his judgment, necessary to the proper completion of the work of the department. All salaries and other compensation provided by this section shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller. The state superintendent may provide an office for his use and furnish it with needed furniture, stationery and supplies, and expend for such purpose and for his disbursements and expenses in discharging his duty and in carrying out the provisions of this article, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars each year, to be paid by the state treasurer on the audit and warrant of the comptroller. § 488. Report to governor. The state superintendent of elections shall annually in the month of December file with the governor a report showing the names and residences of the persons appointed by him as deputies during the year, the number of days each has served, the compensation certified for each, the number of arrests made for violation of this chapter or the penal law, the names of the persons arrested, the nature of the offense charged, the disposition thereof, and any other facts in relation to the administration of his office which the state superintendent may deem proper or which may be required by the governor. ARTICLE 19 Soldiers' and Sailors' Elections Section 500. Special polls in time of war. 501. General register of absent voters. 502. Poll books and oaths. 503. Official war ballots. 504. Official envelopes for war ballots. 505. Delivery of official war ballots, poll books and en velopes. 506. Lists of nominations. 507. Polls of election. Section 508. Opening of the polls. 509. Organization of the polls. 511. Count of the votes. 512. Returns not to be rejected because of informality of 513. Disposition of envelopes and ballots. 516. Canvass by state board. 517. Returns or statements not made and filed prior to certain dates in any year not to be canvassed. 518. Provisions of penal law relating to crimes against the elective franchise to apply. 519. Filling vacancies in the office of inspector of elec tions. 520. Elections may be contested. 521. General provisions concerning elections to apply. 522. Copies of this article to be published and distributed. § 500. Special polls in time of war. Whenever, in time of war, any qualified voter of this state shall be in the actual military service of this state or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, and by reason thereof absent from his election district, such absent voter shall be entitled to vote as fully as if he were present at his place of residence in the manner hereinafter provided. § 501. General register of absent voters. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to prepare and make a general register in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the names of the voters of this state absent from their respective election districts in time of war in the actual military service of this state or of the United States in the army or navy thereof. Such general register shall contain the name and residence of each such absent voter by street and number, if any, and the name of the county and city or town in which he resides, so far as the secretary of state can ascertain the same. It shall also contain the name or number or other designation of the regiment, company, troop, vessel or other command to which each such absent voter is attached or assigned, and the location of such command at the time of such entry, so far as he can ascertain the same. In order to secure the necessary information to make and complete such general register, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to prepare proper blanks and forward the same to the commanding officer of each command in which there are any such absent voters of this state, to be filled out with the necessary information, attested by him, and returned forthwith, securely sealed, to the secretary of state. Such general register shall be a public record and shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection by any voter of this state. It is hereby made the duty of every public officer, and of every citizen, to furnish to the secretary of state such information as he may possess relating to such absent voters; and any person who shall refuse so to do, or shall wilfully furnish false information in reference to such absent voters, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one year nor more than three years. § 502. Poll books and oaths. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause to be prepared and printed in book form a sufficient number of poll books, at least two books for each poll, for the use of the inspectors of elections at the polls of the elections held under the provisions of this article. Such poll books shall be in the general form of those prescribed for use at elections in this state, omitting all columns except those for the number, name and residence of each voter, and so arranged that there can be entered therein, in addition to such entries, in separate columns, the name of the county and city or town in which the persons voting at such poll reside or claim to reside, and also the designation of the particular command to which each such person is attached or of which he forms a part. Upon the first page of each such poll book shall be printed the date and character of the election for which it is prepared, and blank spaces in which shall be written by the inspectors the place at which the poll was held, and the names and residences of the persons acting as inspectors of election thereat. Upon the page following the last page of each such poll book used for recording the names of voters at such poll, shall be printed a blank certificate, to be signed by the inspectors of election at the close of the polls. Such certificate shall be substantially in the following form: "We, the inspectors of election for the general (or special) election held at (here follows the name of the place) on the ...day of..... ...19..., do hereby certify that the names of the persons recorded herein as having voted at such election, such persons numbering in all (here follows the number in figures and words), are all the persons who appeared |