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                                  7933

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 25, 2010
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Introduced  by  Sen.  FOLEY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

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
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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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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.