Bill Text: NY A07721 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to increasing the amount of compensation for chairmen, election inspectors and ballot clerks for fire districts' elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A07721 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7721

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2019
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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:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 6 of section 175 of the town law, subdi-
     2  vision 1 as amended by chapter 334 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision 6
     3  as amended by chapter 586 of the laws of 2004, are amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    1.  An  annual  election  shall  be  held in each fire district on the
     6  second Tuesday in December, except that  in  the  Ocean  Bay  Park  fire
     7  district,  the  Lonelyville fire district, the Davis Park fire district,
     8  the Cherry Grove fire district, the Fair Harbor fire  district  and  the
     9  Fire  Island  Pines  fire district, Suffolk county, such annual election
    10  shall be held on the second Tuesday in July, except that in the town  of
    11  Salisbury,  Herkimer  county,  such annual election shall be held on the
    12  Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November from six o'clock in
    13  the morning until nine o'clock in the evening and  except  that  in  the
    14  Belfast  fire  district,  Allegany county, such annual election shall be
    15  held on the first Tuesday in December. The board of  fire  commissioners
    16  shall  give notice thereof by the publication of a notice once in one or
    17  more newspapers having a general circulation in the district. The  first
    18  publication  of such notice shall be not less than twenty-seven days and
    19  not more than thirty-four days prior to the date of such election.  Such
    20  notice  shall  specify  the  time when and the place where such election
    21  will be held, the officers to be elected  thereat  and  their  terms  of
    22  office,  and  the  hours  during  which  the  polls will be open for the
    23  receipt of ballots. The secretary of such fire  district  shall  prepare
    24  the  ballots  for  all elections of fire district officers and the polls
    25  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.
                                                                   LBD11206-01-9
        A. 7721                             2

     1  district  officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in
     2  the evening and such additional consecutive hours prior thereto  as  the
     3  board  of  fire  commissioners  of such district may have determined and
     4  specified  in  the notice thereof. The board of fire commissioners shall
     5  designate a resident fire district elector, who shall  be  a  registered
     6  voter  of  the town, to act as chairman of any election of said district
     7  and shall designate not less than two nor more than four  resident  fire
     8  district  electors, who shall be registered voters of the town to act as
     9  election inspectors and ballot clerks at  such  elections.  No  elective
    10  officer  of  the  fire  district  shall  serve as such chairman or as an
    11  election inspector or ballot clerk. The board of fire commissioners  may
    12  adopt a resolution providing that such chairman, election inspectors and
    13  ballot  clerks  shall  be paid for their respective services at any such
    14  annual election or at any special election of the  fire  district.  Such
    15  resolution,  if  adopted,  shall fix the amount of such compensation, as
    16  follows: if the hours during which  the  polls  will  be  open  for  the
    17  receipt  of  ballots  are  from  six  o'clock  in the evening until nine
    18  o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed  [thirty-five]  one  hundred
    19  dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours prior to
    20  six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in the notice of
    21  election,  a sum not to exceed [fifty] two hundred dollars for each such
    22  official.
    23    6. If in any fire district the number of voters  is  so  great  as  to
    24  render it inexpedient or impossible to conduct the election at one poll-
    25  ing  place, the board of fire commissioners may divide the fire district
    26  into election districts and  provide  a  polling  place  for  each  such
    27  election  district,  provided,  however,  that  the  number  of election
    28  districts in any fire district shall not exceed one for each six hundred
    29  electors plus one for a remaining  fraction  of  six  hundred.  In  such
    30  event,  the  notice  specified  in subdivision one of this section shall
    31  describe the election districts and state where the polling places  will
    32  be located, and the board of fire commissioners shall designate not less
    33  than  two  nor more than four resident fire district electors, who shall
    34  be registered voters of the town, to  act  as  election  inspectors  and
    35  ballot  clerks  at  each  such polling place. The board of fire district
    36  commissioners may  adopt  a  resolution  providing  that  such  election
    37  inspectors and ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services
    38  at  any  such  annual  election  or  at any special election of the fire
    39  district. Such resolution, if adopted, shall  fix  the  amount  of  such
    40  compensation  as  follows:  if  the hours during which the polls will be
    41  open for the receipt of ballots are from  six  o'clock  in  the  evening
    42  until nine o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed [thirty-five] one
    43  hundred  dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours
    44  prior to six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in  the
    45  notice  of election, a sum not to exceed [fifty] two hundred dollars for
    46  each such official. No elective officer of the fire district shall serve
    47  as an election inspector or ballot clerk.
    48    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.