Bill Text: NY S03326 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to absentee ballots for fire district elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03326 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03326-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3326
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- 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 absentee ballots  for  fire
          district elections
          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-b of the town law, as  amended
     2  by chapter 401 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. The board of fire commissioners of any fire district in which offi-
     4  cers  are  elected,  [may]  shall,  by  resolution, provide for absentee
     5  ballots for fire district elections, in accordance with  the  provisions
     6  of  this  section.   Such resolution shall take effect at the first such
     7  election held more than sixty days after its adoption [and shall contin-
     8  ue in effect for  all  such  elections  until  a  subsequent  resolution
     9  providing otherwise shall, in like manner, have taken effect].
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08478-01-9