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Assembly Bill A8741

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires fire districts to allow the use of absentee ballots

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2013-A8741 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Town Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง175-b, Town L

2013-A8741 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires fire districts to allow the use of absentee ballots.

2013-A8741 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8741

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 7, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to requiring fire districts to
  allow for absentee ballots

  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-b of the town law, as  amended
by chapter 401 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The board of fire commissioners of any fire district in which offi-
cers  are  elected,  [may]  SHALL,  by  resolution, provide for absentee
ballots for fire district elections, in accordance with  the  provisions
of  this  section.   Such resolution shall take effect at the first such
election held more than sixty days after its adoption [and shall contin-
ue in effect for  all  such  elections  until  a  subsequent  resolution
providing otherwise shall, in like manner, have taken effect].
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
election that occurs after such effective date.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05990-01-3

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