Bill Text: NY S00656 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the rates of compensation for the chairman, election inspectors and ballot clerks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00656 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00656-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 656 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 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 compensation of the chair- man, election inspectors and ballot clerks 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04489-01-9S. 656 2 1 shall remain open for the receipt thereof at all elections of fire 2 district officers from six o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock in 3 the evening and such additional consecutive hours prior thereto as the 4 board of fire commissioners of such district may have determined and 5 specified in the notice thereof. The board of fire commissioners shall 6 designate a resident fire district elector, who shall be a registered 7 voter of the town, to act as chairman of any election of said district 8 and shall designate not less than two nor more than four resident fire 9 district electors, who shall be registered voters of the town to act as 10 election inspectors and ballot clerks at such elections. No elective 11 officer of the fire district shall serve as such chairman or as an 12 election inspector or ballot clerk. The board of fire commissioners may 13 adopt a resolution providing that such chairman, election inspectors and 14 ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services at any such 15 annual election or at any special election of the fire district. Such 16 resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of such compensation, as 17 follows: if the hours during which the polls will be open for the 18 receipt of ballots are from six o'clock in the evening until nine 19 o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed [thirty-five] one hundred 20 dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours prior to 21 six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in the notice of 22 election, a sum not to exceed [fifty] two hundred dollars for each such 23 official. 24 6. If in any fire district the number of voters is so great as to 25 render it inexpedient or impossible to conduct the election at one poll- 26 ing place, the board of fire commissioners may divide the fire district 27 into election districts and provide a polling place for each such 28 election district, provided, however, that the number of election 29 districts in any fire district shall not exceed one for each six hundred 30 electors plus one for a remaining fraction of six hundred. In such 31 event, the notice specified in subdivision one of this section shall 32 describe the election districts and state where the polling places will 33 be located, and the board of fire commissioners shall designate not less 34 than two nor more than four resident fire district electors, who shall 35 be registered voters of the town, to act as election inspectors and 36 ballot clerks at each such polling place. The board of fire district 37 commissioners may adopt a resolution providing that such election 38 inspectors and ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services 39 at any such annual election or at any special election of the fire 40 district. Such resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of such 41 compensation as follows: if the hours during which the polls will be 42 open for the receipt of ballots are from six o'clock in the evening 43 until nine o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed [thirty-five] one 44 hundred dollars for each such official; if additional consecutive hours 45 prior to six o'clock in the evening are determined and specified in the 46 notice of election, a sum not to exceed [fifty] two hundred dollars for 47 each such official. No elective officer of the fire district shall serve 48 as an election inspector or ballot clerk. 49 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
