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                                   4971
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, MANKTELOW, BYRNE -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A.  HAWLEY -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD02425-01-9

 A. 4971                             2
 
 the polls will be open  for  the  receipt  of  ballots.  [The]  FOR  ANY
 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.