As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 7, 2019

1933 Act Registration No. 333-203099

1940 Act Registration No. 811-08559

CIK No. 0001051629

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-6

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Post-Effective Amendment No. 9

and

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

Amendment No. 138

Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium Variable Life Account M
(Exact Name of Registrant)

Lincoln AssetEdge^® VUL 2015

LINCOLN LIFE & ANNUITY COMPANY OF NEW YORK
(Exact Name of Depositor)

120 Madison Street, Suite 1310
Syracuse, NY 13202

(Address of Depositor’s Principal Executive Offices)

Depositor’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (315) 428-8400

Robert O. Sheppard, Esquire

Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York
120 Madison Street, Suite 1310
Syracuse, NY 13202

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Scott C. Durocher

The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
350 Church Street

Hartford, CT 06103

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: Continuous

Title of Securities being registered:

Indefinite Number of Units of Interest in Variable Life Insurance Contracts.

An indefinite amount of the securities being offered by the Registration Statement has been registered pursuant to
Rule 24f-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Form 24F-2 for the Registrant for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2018 was filed March 25, 2019.

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

/ /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
/ /	on _______, 2019 pursuant to paragraph (b)
/ /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
/ /	on ______, 2019 pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485.
/X/	This Post-Effective Amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed Post-Effective Amendment. Such effective date shall be October 15, 2019.

This Post-effective Amendment No. 9 is being filed pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) under the Securities Act of 1933 for the sole purpose of delaying the effective date of Post-effective Amendment No. 8 to Registration Statement No. 333-203099 filed pursuant to Rule 485(a) under the Securities Act of 1933 on August 9, 2019. The contents of Post-effective Amendment No. 8 are being incorporated by reference.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant, Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium Variable Life Account M, has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement on Form N-6 (File No.:333-203099; 811-08559; CIK: 0001051629) to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned duly authorized, in the City of Hartford and State of Connecticut, on the 7th day of October, 2019.

Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium

Variable Life Account M

(Registrant)

/s/ Joshua R. Durand

By: ___________________________________

Joshua R. Durand

Assistant Vice President

Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York

(Depositor)

/s/ Joshua R. Durand

By: __________________________________

Joshua R. Durand

Assistant Vice President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No.: 9 to the Registration Statement (File No.:333-203099; 811-08559; CIK: 0001051629) has been signed below on October 7, 2019, by the following persons, as officers and directors of the Depositor, in the capacities indicated:

Signature Title

/s/ Dennis R. Glass *

______________________________

President

Dennis R. Glass

/s/ Ellen G. Cooper *

______________________________ Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Ellen G. Cooper Officer and Director

/s/ Randal J. Freitag *

______________________________ Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Randal J. Freitag Officer and Director

/s/ George W. Henderson, III *

______________________________ Director

George W. Henderson, III

/s/ Mark Konen*

______________________________ Director

Mark E. Konen

/s/ M. Leanne Lachman *

______________________________ Director

M. Leanne Lachman

/s/ Louis G. Marcoccia *

______________________________ Director

Louis G. Marcoccia

/s/ Patrick S. Pittard *

_____________________________ Director

Patrick S. Pittard

/s/ Scott C. Durocher

*By:________________________________________

Scott C. Durocher

Attorney-in-Fact, pursuant to a Power-

of-Attorney filed with this Registration Statement