STATE OF NEW YORK
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6901
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GRAF -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to including the Fair Harbor
fire district as among those districts that have elections on the
second Tuesday in July
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 175 of the town law, as amended by
2 chapter 185 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. An annual election shall be held in each fire district on the
4 second Tuesday in December, except that in the Ocean Bay Park fire
5 district, the Lonelyville fire district, the Davis Park fire district,
6 the Cherry Grove fire district, the Fair Harbor fire district and the
7 Fire Island Pines fire district, Suffolk county, such annual election
8 shall be held on the second Tuesday in July, except that in the town of
9 Salisbury, Herkimer county, such annual election shall be held on the
10 Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November from six o'clock in
11 the morning until nine o'clock in the evening and except that in the
12 Belfast fire district, Allegany county, such annual election shall be
13 held on the first Tuesday in December. The board of fire commissioners
14 shall give notice thereof by the publication of a notice once in one or
15 more newspapers having a general circulation in the district. The first
16 publication of such notice shall be not less than twenty-seven days and
17 not more than thirty-four days prior to the date of such election. Such
18 notice shall specify the time when and the place where such election
19 will be held, the officers to be elected thereat and their terms of
20 office, and the hours during which the polls will be open for the
21 receipt of ballots. The secretary of such fire district shall prepare
22 the ballots for all elections of fire district officers and the polls
23 shall remain open for the receipt thereof at all elections of fire
24 district officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the evening and such additional consecutive hours prior thereto as the
2 board of fire commissioners of such district may have determined and
3 specified in the notice thereof. The board of fire commissioners shall
4 designate a resident fire district elector, who shall be a registered
5 voter of the town, to act as chairman of any election of said district
6 and shall designate not less than two nor more than four resident fire
7 district electors, who shall be registered voters of the town to act as
8 election inspectors and ballot clerks at such elections. No elective
9 officer of the fire district shall serve as such chairman or as an
10 election inspector or ballot clerk. The board of fire commissioners may
11 adopt a resolution providing that such chairman, election inspectors and
12 ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services at any such
13 annual election or at any special election of the fire district. Such
14 resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of such compensation, as
15 follows: if the hours during which the polls will be open for the
16 receipt of ballots are from six o'clock in the evening until nine
17 o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed thirty-five dollars for each
18 such official; if additional consecutive hours prior to six o'clock in
19 the evening are determined and specified in the notice of election, a
20 sum not to exceed fifty dollars for each such official.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
22 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
