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                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Local Governments

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  town  law,  in relation to the election of fire
  district officers in the town of Eastchester

  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 334 of the laws of 2011, 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,  AND  THE TOWN OF EASTCHESTER, WESTCHESTER
COUNTY, such annual election shall be held on the Tuesday next  succeed-
ing  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 news-
papers having a general circulation in the district. The first  publica-
tion  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
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

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

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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.