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                                   8810
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2022
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 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Libraries and Education Technology
 
 AN  ACT  to amend section 3 of chapter 233 of the laws of 2000, relating
   to authorizing the town boards of the towns of Oyster  Bay  and  North
   Hempstead,  county  of  Nassau,  to  establish  the  Gold Coast public
   library district, in relation to the time limits for posting  publica-
   tion of notice of election and filing candidate petitions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 3 of  chapter  233  of  the
 laws  of  2000,  relating to authorizing the town boards of the towns of
 Oyster Bay and North Hempstead, county of Nassau, to establish the  Gold
 Coast  public  library district, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 399
 of the laws of 2003, are amended to read as follows:
   1. The public library district described in this act  shall  not  come
 into existence unless and until it is approved, and the initial proposed
 budget  is  approved,  by a vote of the majority of the qualified voters
 voting in an election held pursuant to the  following  provisions.  Upon
 receipt  of a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters quali-
 fied to vote at a general election, the town  boards  of  the  towns  of
 Oyster  Bay  and  North Hempstead shall give notice of an election. If a
 majority of the voters at said election approved the  formation  of  the
 district,  then  the district shall come into existence on the terms and
 conditions set forth hereinafter. At said election the issues shall  be:
 (a)  whether  the public library district described in this act shall be
 created or not; (b)  whether  the  budget  therefor  proposed  shall  be
 approved  or  disapproved;  and  (c)  the  election  of nine trustees as
 further provided by this act. The town board shall designate  a  polling
 place  which  is centrally located and accessible. The town boards shall
 give notice of said election by the publication of a notice  in  one  or
 more  newspapers  having  a  general  circulation  in the district to be
 served. The first publication of such notice  shall  be  not  less  than
 [thirteen  days  and not more than twenty] THIRTY days prior to the date
 of such election. In addition, the town board shall cause copies of such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 notice to be posted conspicuously  in  five  public  places  within  the
 proposed  district  at least [thirteen] THIRTY 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 issues to be decided at said
 election and the hours during which polls will be open for  the  receipt
 of ballots thereof. The town boards shall designate a resident qualified
 voter  of  such  district  to act as chairperson of any election of such
 district and shall designate not less than two nor more than four  resi-
 dents  qualified to act as election inspectors and ballot clerks at such
 elections. Every  voter,  otherwise  qualified  to  vote  at  a  general
 election  within the area of the proposed district shall be qualified to
 vote at said election. After the polls have closed at said election, the
 election inspectors and the  ballot  clerks  shall  immediately  canvass
 publicly  the  ballots  cast  and  the chairperson of the election shall
 publicly announce the result. Within seventy-two hours  thereafter,  the
 chairperson,  election  inspectors  and  ballot clerks shall execute and
 file a certificate of the result of the canvass with the town clerks  of
 the towns of Oyster Bay and North Hempstead.
   3. Candidates for the office of member of the board of trustees of the
 library  district  shall  be  nominated by petition. A separate petition
 shall be required to nominate each candidate for a vacancy on the board.
 Each petition shall be directed to the town clerk of Oyster  Bay,  shall
 be  signed  by  at  least  fifty qualified voters of the district, shall
 state the residence of each signer, and shall state the name  and  resi-
 dence  of  the candidate. In the event that any such nominee shall with-
 draw candidacy prior to the election, such person shall not  be  consid-
 ered  a candidate unless and until a new petition nominating such person
 in the same manner and within the same  time  limitation  applicable  to
 other candidates is filed with the town clerk of the town of Oyster Bay.
 Each  petition  shall be filed with the town clerk of Oyster Bay between
 the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., not later  than  the  [thirteenth]
 THIRTIETH  day preceding the election at which time the candidates nomi-
 nated are to be elected. In the event the district is created, petitions
 nominating candidates for  the  board  of  trustees  after  the  initial
 election  shall  be  filed  with  the secretary of the Gold Coast public
 library district or his or her designee.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.