S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7785
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 23, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to extending the hours that
the polls are open for the election of the commissioners of an
improvement district
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 212 of the town law, as amended by chapter 421 of
the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
S 212. Annual election and notice thereof. The district commissioners
of such improvement district shall publish at the expense of the
district the notice of each election of improvement district commission-
ers held pursuant to this article. Such notice shall be published at
least once in one or more newspapers having general circulation in the
district and the first publication thereof shall be at least twenty days
before the day of such election. The notice of annual election shall
specify the time when and the place or places where such election shall
be held and the hours during which the polls will be open for the
receipt of ballots. Notice of such election shall also be posted on the
websites of the district and the town in which the district is located,
if such websites are maintained, on the signboard of the town, and
conspicuously posted in three or more designated public locations within
the district, on or about the day on which such notice is published.
Such election shall be held at a suitable place or places within the
district designated by the district commissioners and the polls shall
remain open from [six] THREE o'clock in the [evening] AFTERNOON until
nine o'clock in the evening and such additional consecutive hours prior
thereto as the district commissioners may determine and specify in the
notice of such election. The board of commissioners of such district
shall designate for each district election not less than two nor more
than four resident taxpayers to act as election inspectors and ballot
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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clerks for each designated polling place. The board of commissioners
shall fix the compensation of such election inspectors and ballot clerks
in an amount not to exceed ten dollars per hour each for every hour or
part thereof of such service and such compensation shall be a charge
against the district. The board of commissioners shall cause to be
prepared the ballots for all elections, and may authorize the use of
voting machines approved by the secretary of state at any annual or
special election of the district in accordance with article nine of the
election law. After the polls shall have been closed at any election,
the election inspectors and ballot clerks at each polling place shall
immediately canvass the ballots cast and shall publicly announce the
result of the vote at that polling place. Within twenty-four hours the
chairman of the board of commissioners, election inspectors and ballot
clerks shall execute and file a certificate of the result of the canvass
with the board of commissioners of the improvement district and with the
clerk of the town in which said district is located.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.