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                                  6163--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. DARLING -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Libraries and Education  Technology  --  committee  discharged,
   bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend chapter 1017 of the laws of 1963 relating to  establish-
   ing  the  Uniondale  public library district in the town of Hempstead,
   Nassau county, in relation to certain dates pertaining to  the  annual
   election process and certain rights of the board
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3 of chapter 1017 of the laws of 1963  relating  to
 establishing  the Uniondale public library district in the town of Hemp-
 stead, Nassau county, as amended by chapter 779 of the laws of 1964,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   §  3.  The  board of trustees of the public library of said union free
 school district number two, town of Hempstead, in office on  the  effec-
 tive  date  of  this  act  shall constitute the board of trustees of the
 Uniondale public library district herein established.  Each such trustee
 of the district herein established shall continue to hold office as such
 for the balance of his OR HER term as trustee of  such  school  district
 library  and  until  his OR HER successor is elected. Thereafter, on the
 [first Tuesday of December] THIRD THURSDAY OF OCTOBER in  each  calendar
 year  in  which  the  term of any such trustee shall expire, an election
 shall be held for a trustee to succeed such trustee for a term  of  five
 years commencing the first day of January next succeeding such election.
   The  [trustee]  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  shall  give notice thereof by the
 publication of a notice AT LEAST once in one or more newspapers having a
 general circulation in the district. The  [first]  publication  of  such
 notice  shall  be [not less than thirteen days and not more than twenty]
 AT LEAST FORTY-FIVE days prior to the date of such  election.  In  addi-
 tion, the trustees of such district shall cause copies of such notice to
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD09444-02-1

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 be  posted  conspicuously in five public places in the district at least
 [thirteen] FORTY-FIVE 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 trustees of such district shall prepare the
 ballots for all elections of trustees and the polls  shall  remain  open
 for the receipt thereof at all elections from [seven] SIX o'clock in the
 evening  until  [ten]  NINE  o'clock  in the evening and such additional
 consecutive hours prior thereto as the trustees may have determined  and
 specified in the notice thereof. The trustees shall designate a resident
 taxpayer  of  such  district  to act as chairman of any election of said
 district and shall designate not less than two nor more than four  resi-
 dent  taxpayers to act as election inspectors and ballot clerks, AND MAY
 DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVE INSPECTORS WHO SHALL ASSUME THE  OFFICE
 OF  INSPECTOR UPON THE INABILITY OR REFUSAL OF AN INSPECTOR TO ASSUME OR
 PERFORM HIS OR HER DUTIES, at such elections. No trustee shall serve  as
 such  chairman or as an election inspector or ballot clerk. The trustees
 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. Such resolution, if
 adopted, shall fix the amount of such compensation [but the amount shall
 not exceed ten dollars] for each such official.
   Every elector of the town who shall have resided in the  district  for
 the  period of thirty days next preceding any election of trustees shall
 be qualified to vote.
   Every trustee must at the time of his OR HER election  or  appointment
 and  throughout his OR HER term of office be [(1)] a resident elector of
 such district [and (2)  the  owner  of  property  within  such  district
 assessed  upon the latest completed assessment roll of the Town of Hemp-
 stead].
   THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MAY, BY RESOLUTION, PROVIDE FOR ABSENTEE BALLOTS
 FOR THE ELECTION OF THE  OFFICE  OF  TRUSTEE,  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS OF SECTION 213-B OF THE TOWN LAW.
   THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES MAY PROVIDE BY RESOLUTION THAT CANDIDATES FOR
 OFFICE OF TRUSTEE SHALL FILE THEIR NAMES WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD
 OF TRUSTEES AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE  DATE  OF  THE  ELECTIONS,
 AND, IN ADDITION, REQUIRE THAT SUCH NOMINATIONS BE SUBMITTED IN PETITION
 FORM SUBSCRIBED BY TWENTY-FIVE REGISTERED VOTERS OF THE DISTRICT.  THER-
 EAFTER,  THE  BALLOTS  FOR  THE  ELECTION OF THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE SHALL
 SPECIFY THE NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES DULY FILED AND, IN ADDITION, PROVIDE
 PROPER BLANK SPACES FOR EACH OFFICE TO BE FILLED AT  SUCH  ELECTION.  IF
 ANY  SUCH RESOLUTION SHALL BE ADOPTED, THE REQUIREMENTS THEREOF SHALL BE
 SPECIFIED IN THE NOTICE OF EACH DISTRICT ELECTION HELD  THEREAFTER.  THE
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES MAY RESCIND SUCH RESOLUTION AT ANY TIME.
   After  the  [poles]  POLLS shall have been closed at any election held
 for the election of trustees, the election inspectors and ballot  clerks
 shall  immediately canvass publicly the ballots cast and the chairman of
 the election shall publicly  announce  the  result.  Within  twenty-four
 hours  thereafter,  the  chairman, election inspectors and ballot clerks
 shall execute and file a certificate of the result of the  canvass  with
 the trustees and with the town clerk.
   If  the  number  of  voters is so great as to render it inexpedient or
 impossible to conduct the election at one polling  place,  the  trustees
 may  divide  the  district into election districts and provide a polling
 place for each such  election  district,  provided,  however,  that  the

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 number  of  election districts shall not exceed one for each six hundred
 electors plus one for a remaining  fraction  of  six  hundred.  In  such
 event,  the  notice specified in [subdivision one of] this section shall
 describe  the election districts and state where the polling places will
 be located, and the trustees shall designate not less than two nor  more
 than  four  resident  taxpayers to act as election inspectors and ballot
 clerks, AND MAY DESIGNATE ADDITIONAL ALTERNATIVE  INSPECTORS  WHO  SHALL
 ASSUME  THE  OFFICE  OF  INSPECTOR  UPON  THE INABILITY OR REFUSAL OF AN
 INSPECTOR TO ASSUME OR PERFORM HIS OR HER DUTIES AND ADDITIONAL CLERICAL
 HELP, AS NEEDED, at each such polling place. The trustees  may  adopt  a
 resolution  providing  that  such  election inspectors and ballot clerks
 shall be paid for their respective services at any such annual  election
 or at any special election of the district. Such resolution, if adopted,
 shall  fix  the  amount  of  such compensation [but the amount shall not
 exceed ten dollars for such official]. No  trustee  shall  serve  as  an
 election inspector or ballot clerk.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.