Bill Text: NY S05473 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-27 - referred to ways and means [S05473 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05473-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5473--A
            Cal. No. 942

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 1, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local  Government
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
          the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11206-03-9

        S. 5473--A                          2

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