S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10585
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 8, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. RABBITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Local Governments
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to changing the date of fire
district votes and the amount of compensation for poll workers
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 separately amended by chapters 63 and 108 of the laws of
1997 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] NOVEMBER, except that in the Ocean Bay Park
fire district, the Lonelyville fire district, the Davis Park 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 shall remain open for the receipt thereof at all elections of fire
district officers from [six] NINE o'clock in the [evening] MORNING 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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] NINE o'clock in the
[evening] MORNING until nine o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed
[thirty-five] ONE HUNDRED FORTY 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 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] NINE o'clock in the
[evening] MORNING until nine o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed
[thirty-five] ONE HUNDRED FORTY 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 dollars for each such official]. No elective officer of the fire
district shall serve as an election inspector or ballot clerk.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.