Bill Text: NY S04944 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Permits members of the Fair Harbor fire district to adopt a resolution changing the date for the nomination of the chief and assistant chiefs of such fire department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - SIGNED CHAP.208 [S04944 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04944-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Permits members of the Fair Harbor fire district to adopt a resolution changing the date for the nomination of the chief and assistant chiefs of such fire department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - SIGNED CHAP.208 [S04944 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04944-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4944 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 2, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- 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 the election of fire district officers in the Fair Harbor fire district The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 175 of the town law, as amended by 2 chapter 334 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. (a) An annual election shall be held in each fire district on the 4 second Tuesday in December, except that in the Ocean Bay Park fire 5 district, the Lonelyville fire district, the Davis Park fire district, 6 the Cherry Grove fire district, the Fair Harbor fire district and the 7 Fire Island Pines fire district, Suffolk county, such annual election 8 shall be held on the second Tuesday in July, except that in the town of 9 Salisbury, Herkimer county, such annual election shall be held on the 10 Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November from six o'clock in 11 the morning until nine o'clock in the evening and except that in the 12 Belfast fire district, Allegany county, such annual election shall be 13 held on the first Tuesday in December. The board of fire commissioners 14 shall give notice thereof by the publication of a notice once in one or 15 more newspapers having a general circulation in the district. The first 16 publication of such notice shall be not less than twenty-seven days and 17 not more than thirty-four days prior to the date of such election. Such 18 notice shall specify the time when and the place where such election 19 will be held, the officers to be elected thereat and their terms of 20 office, and the hours during which the polls will be open for the 21 receipt of ballots. The secretary of such fire district shall prepare 22 the ballots for all elections of fire district officers and the polls 23 shall remain open for the receipt thereof at all elections of fire 24 district officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in 25 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. LBD10676-01-9S. 4944 2 1 board of fire commissioners of such district may have determined and 2 specified in the notice thereof. The board of fire commissioners shall 3 designate a resident fire district elector, who shall be a registered 4 voter of the town, to act as chairman of any election of said district 5 and shall designate not less than two nor more than four resident fire 6 district electors, who shall be registered voters of the town to act as 7 election inspectors and ballot clerks at such elections. No elective 8 officer of the fire district shall serve as such chairman or as an 9 election inspector or ballot clerk. The board of fire commissioners may 10 adopt a resolution providing that such chairman, election inspectors and 11 ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services at any such 12 annual election or at any special election of the fire district. Such 13 resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of such compensation, as 14 follows: if the hours during which the polls will be open for the 15 receipt of ballots are from six o'clock in the evening until nine 16 o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed thirty-five dollars for each 17 such official; if additional consecutive hours prior to six o'clock in 18 the evening are determined and specified in the notice of election, a 19 sum not to exceed fifty dollars for each such official. 20 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi- 21 sion, the board of fire commissioners of the Fair Harbor fire district, 22 Suffolk county, may adopt a resolution to elect its officers on a date 23 other than the second Tuesday in July. A resolution changing the date of 24 the election of fire district officers shall not become effective until 25 the next election regularly scheduled to be held more than one hundred 26 twenty days following its adoption. Upon the adoption of such a resol- 27 ution, the term of any fire district officer elected at the election 28 prior to the adoption or less than one hundred twenty-one days thereaft- 29 er, and the term of any fire district officer whose successor is sched- 30 uled to be selected more than one hundred twenty days thereafter of such 31 resolution shall be extended until the date fixed as a result of such 32 resolution for his or her successor to take office. 33 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 34 have become a law.
