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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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Assembly Bill A5561
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
BRABENEC
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-A5561 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-A5561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5561 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to changing the date of fire district votes THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 6 of section 175 of the town law, subdi- vision 1 as amended by chapter 334 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision 6 as amended by chapter 586 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read as follows: 1. An annual election shall be held in each fire district on the [second] FIRST Tuesday NEXT SUCCEEDING THE FIRST MONDAY in [December] NOVEMBER, except that in the Ocean Bay Park fire district, the Lonely- ville 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 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 LOCAL board of ELECTIONS FOR EACH fire [commissioners] DISTRICT 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 ther- eat and their terms of office, and the hours during which the polls will be open for the receipt of ballots. The [secretary of such] LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR EACH fire district shall prepare the ballots for all EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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