§ 4-130. Supplies for registration; manner and time of delivery. 1. Before it is sent from the office or branch office of the board of elections, each ledger or binder of blank registration records shall be locked in a distinctively numbered carrying case. Such board shall place the key for such carrying case in a sealed envelope on which shall be written or printed the number of the carrying case. No such case or key shall be delivered to any person who is not designated in this chapter as a person entitled to receive it. Any person to whom any such case or key shall be delivered shall give a receipt therefor to the person delivering it. Such receipt shall recite the official title or capacity of the person receiving it and, in each instance, the distinctive number identifying it. After leaving the board of elections no such case shall be unlocked except at the time and in the manner provided in this chapter.

2. a. Except in the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester, the board of elections shall deliver at its office to each town or city clerk in its county not more than five days before the beginning of local registration, the registration record forms, supplies and equipment required for local registration and such clerks shall deliver the same to the several boards of inspectors within such town or city approximately one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning such registration.

b. In the cities of New York, Buffalo, and Rochester the board of elections shall deliver such material to the boards of inspectors at least one-half hour before the hour fixed for beginning local registration.