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                                   6296
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 12, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to compensation  of  chairman,
   election inspectors and ballot clerks for fire districts elections
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 6 of section 175 of the town law, subdi-
 vision 1 as amended by chapter 334 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision 6
 as amended by chapter 586 of the laws of 2004, are 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 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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
 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]  SEVENTY
 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] ONE HUNDRED dollars for each such
 official.
   6. If in any fire district the number of voters  is  so  great  as  to
 render it inexpedient or impossible to conduct the election at one poll-
 ing  place, the board of fire commissioners may divide the fire district
 into election districts and  provide  a  polling  place  for  each  such
 election  district,  provided,  however,  that  the  number  of election
 districts in any fire district 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 board of fire commissioners 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  each  such polling place. The board of fire district
 commissioners 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 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]
 SEVENTY 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] ONE HUNDRED dollars  for
 each such official. No elective officer of the fire district shall serve
 as an election inspector or ballot clerk.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.