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                                  6901

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              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:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 175 of the town law, as amended by
chapter 185 of the laws of 2010, is 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
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 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.
  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.