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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 23, 2015
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Introduced  by M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend  the  town  law,  in  relation  to  elections  for  fire
  districts

  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, 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 OR ANY FIRE DISTRICT MAY, BY LOCAL
REFERENDUM, OPT TO HOLD SUCH ELECTION ON THE TUESDAY IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW-
ING  THE FIRST MONDAY IN NOVEMBER.  ANY ELECTION HELD IN NOVEMBER PURSU-
ANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL TAKE PLACE AT THE SAME TIME, LOCATION AND
MANNER AS THE GENERAL ELECTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE EIGHT OF THE ELECTION
LAW. 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] FOR ANY

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ELECTION NOT HELD DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION,  THE  secretary  of  such
fire district shall prepare the ballots for [all] SUCH elections of fire
district officers and the polls shall remain open for the receipt there-
of at [all] SUCH 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] IN  ADDITION,  FOR  ANY  ELECTION  NOT  HELD  DURING  THE  GENERAL
ELECTION,  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 immediately.