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                                  9181

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            October 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. FIELDS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Local Governments

AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to including Cherry Grove fire
  district  as  among  those districts that have elections on the second
  Tuesday in July

  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 separately
amended  by  chapters 63 and 108 of the laws of 1997, 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 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 coun-
ty, such annual election shall be held on the first Tuesday in December.
The board of fire commissioners shall give notice thereof by the  publi-
cation  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
the  polls  will  be  open for the receipt of ballots.  The secretary of
such fire district shall prepare the ballots for all elections  of  fire
district officers and the polls shall remain open for the receipt there-
of  at  all  elections of fire district officers from six o'clock in the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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evening until nine o'clock in the evening and  such  additional  consec-
utive  hours  prior  thereto  as the board of fire commissioners of such
district may have determined and specified in the  notice  thereof.  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 regis-
tered 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  chair-
man,  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.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.