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                                   10372
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 4, 2020
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 Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the town law, in relation to providing that the South
   New Berlin fire district, Chenango county, shall have elections on the
   second Wednesday of December
 
   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 amended
 by chapter 334 of the laws of 2011, 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, the Fair Harbor 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 SOUTH
 NEW BERLIN FIRE DISTRICT, CHENANGO COUNTY, SUCH ANNUAL ELECTION SHALL BE
 HELD ON THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF DECEMBER, 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 county, such annual election shall be
 held on the first Tuesday in December. The board of  fire  commissioners
 shall  give notice thereof by the publication 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  thereof  at  all  elections  of  fire
 district  officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in
 the evening and such additional consecutive hours prior thereto  as  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16183-01-0

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 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 registered 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 chairman, 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.