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                                   4064
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 2, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  GAUGHRAN, BOYLE, KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Local
   Government
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the town law, in relation to compensation of chairman,
   election inspectors and ballot clerks for fire districts elections

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 6 of section 175 of the town law, subdi-
 vision 1 as amended by chapter 334 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision 6
 as  amended  by  chapter 586 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. An annual election shall be held  in  each  fire  district  on  the
 second  Tuesday  in  December,  except  that  in the Ocean Bay Park fire
 district, the Lonelyville fire district, the Davis Park  fire  district,
 the  Cherry  Grove  fire district, the Fair Harbor fire district and the
 Fire Island Pines fire district, Suffolk county,  such  annual  election
 shall  be held on the second Tuesday in July, except that in the town of
 Salisbury, Herkimer county, such annual election shall be  held  on  the
 Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November from six o'clock in
 the  morning  until  nine  o'clock in the evening and except that in the
 Belfast fire district, Allegany county, such annual  election  shall  be
 held  on  the first Tuesday in December. The board of fire commissioners
 shall give notice thereof by the publication of a notice once in one  or
 more  newspapers having a general circulation in the district. The first
 publication of such notice shall be not less than twenty-seven days  and
 not  more than thirty-four days prior to the date of such election. Such
 notice shall specify the time when and the  place  where  such  election
 will  be  held,  the  officers  to be elected thereat and their terms of
 office, and the hours during which  the  polls  will  be  open  for  the
 receipt  of  ballots.  The secretary of such fire district shall prepare
 the ballots for all elections of fire district officers  and  the  polls
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 shall  remain  open  for  the  receipt  thereof at all elections of fire
 district officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock  in
 the  evening  and such additional consecutive hours prior thereto as the
 board  of  fire  commissioners  of such district may have determined and
 specified in the notice thereof. The board of fire  commissioners  shall
 designate  a  resident  fire district elector, who shall be a registered
 voter of the town, to act as chairman of any election of  said  district
 and  shall  designate not less than two nor more than four resident fire
 district electors, who shall be registered voters of the town to act  as
 election  inspectors  and  ballot  clerks at such elections. No elective
 officer of the fire district shall serve  as  such  chairman  or  as  an
 election  inspector or ballot clerk. The board of fire commissioners may
 adopt a resolution providing that such chairman, election inspectors and
 ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services  at  any  such
 annual  election  or  at any special election of the fire district. Such
 resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of  such  compensation,  as
 follows:  if  the  hours  during  which  the  polls will be open for the
 receipt of ballots are from  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  until  nine
 o'clock  in  the  evening,  a  sum  not  to exceed [thirty-five] SEVENTY
 dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours prior to
 six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in the notice of
 election, a sum not to exceed [fifty] ONE HUNDRED dollars for each  such
 official.
   6.  If  in  any  fire  district the number of voters is so great as to
 render it inexpedient or impossible to conduct the election at one poll-
 ing place, the board of fire commissioners may divide the fire  district
 into  election  districts  and  provide  a  polling  place for each such
 election district,  provided,  however,  that  the  number  of  election
 districts in any fire district shall not exceed one for each six hundred
 electors  plus  one  for  a  remaining  fraction of six hundred. In such
 event, the notice specified in subdivision one  of  this  section  shall
 describe  the election districts and state where the polling places will
 be located, and the board of fire commissioners shall designate not less
 than two nor more than four resident fire district electors,  who  shall
 be  registered  voters  of  the  town, to act as election inspectors and
 ballot clerks at each such polling place. The  board  of  fire  district
 commissioners  may  adopt  a  resolution  providing  that  such election
 inspectors and ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services
 at any such annual election or at  any  special  election  of  the  fire
 district.  Such  resolution,  if  adopted,  shall fix the amount of such
 compensation as follows: if the hours during which  the  polls  will  be
 open  for  the  receipt  of  ballots are from six o'clock in the evening
 until nine o'clock in the evening, a sum  not  to  exceed  [thirty-five]
 SEVENTY  dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours
 prior to six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in  the
 notice  of election, a sum not to exceed [fifty] ONE HUNDRED dollars for
 each such official. No elective officer of the fire district shall serve
 as an election inspector or ballot clerk.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.