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                                   7611
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 17, 2021
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 Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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
 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.