NY Town L § 213-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 13 - Improvement District Commissioners 213-A - Registration for Voters and Preparation of the Voter Register.

§  213-a.  Registration  for  voters  and  preparation  of  the  voter register. 1. The board of commissioners of any improvement  district  in which  commissioners  are  elected  may  provide  by  resolution  that a proposition be submitted at any  annual  improvement  district  election providing that additional personal registration of voters not registered with the board of elections shall be permitted for all elections in such improvement district.   2.  Registration  for  all  improvement  district  elections  shall be conducted as follows:  (a) Only those persons registered with the board of  elections  on  or before the twenty-third day before such election and those persons whose names  are  placed  on the improvement district register pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be entitled to vote in such district.  (b) In improvement districts in which  there  is  additional  personal registration,  the  board of commissioners shall publish a resolution at least twenty-seven days prior to election day, which shall designate the dates prior to registration day on  which  the  inspectors  of  election shall  meet  to  commence  the preparation of the register; the place in each district where such meetings, registration, if  any,  and  election shall  be  held;  the hours for such meetings, registration, if any, and election; but in no event shall the hours for registration be less  than the  hours  from  six  o'clock  in the evening until nine o'clock in the evening. Such resolution shall be adopted at least thirty days prior  to election day.  (c) In an improvement district whose electors have approved additional personal   registration,   such   registration  shall  be  held  on  the seventeenth day prior to the annual district election, except  in  those districts which provide by resolution adopted at least thirty-seven days prior to the date of the first election for which it shall be effective, for  an  additional day of registration to be held on the nineteenth day prior to the annual district election. Such resolution shall  remain  in effect  for  subsequent  annual  elections,  unless amended, modified or repealed.   3. The register for the annual improvement district election shall  be prepared  in  each district by the inspectors of election thereof on the days prior to registration day, if  any,  designated  therefor,  on  the registration  day,  if  any,  at  the times and places designated by the resolution of the board of commissioners. In  preparing  such  register, the inspectors of election shall comply with the following procedure:  (a)  They  shall  adopt,  use  or  copy  from,  the  registration list certified and supplied by  the  county  board  of  elections  the  names appearing  thereon  of  all persons residing in the improvement district and qualified to vote in such forthcoming annual district election. Such register shall be completed by adding thereto the names of  the  persons personally  appearing before them and providing to their satisfaction to then be or at the time of election qualified to vote.  (b) The register for each district shall  include  as  a  minimum  the space  for  the  name  of  the voter, his address within the improvement district and a space for his or her signature to be signed by the  voter on  election  day.  Such  register  shall  also  contain a space for the signature of the voter to be signed by such voter on  registration  day. If  the  register  shall  contain  only  space for the name, address and signature of the voter, the improvement district secretary shall furnish a printed certificate to be signed by the voter who  appears  personally before  the  inspectors of election on registration day if his name does not already appear on the register. Such  certificate  shall  contain  a statement that the person possesses all the necessary qualifications for voting  in  improvement  district  elections.  Such certificate shall be  accepted for all purposes as the equivalent of an affidavit, and  if  it contains a material false statement, shall subject the person signing it to  the  same  penalty  as if he had been duly sworn, and such provision shall  be  printed in bold type directly above the signature line of the certificate holder.   4. The improvement district secretary shall furnish the inspectors  of election,  at  district  expense, with all necessary registration books, papers, equipment and supplies.   5. In lieu of the provisions for designating the  election  inspectors and  ballot  clerks,  as set forth in section two hundred twelve of this chapter, in improvement districts where additional personal registration is permitted, the board of commissioners shall, by resolution adopted at least forty days prior to the  annual  district  election,  designate  a resident improvement district elector to act as chairman of any election of  said  district  and  shall designate not less than two nor more than four resident district electors to act as election inspectors and ballot clerks in such election. Such resolution shall fix the  compensation  of the chairman and inspectors and, in addition, the board of commissioners may  provide  for  alternate  inspectors  who shall assume the office of inspector upon the inability or refusal of an  inspector  to  assume  or perform  his  duties  and  for  any  clerical  help  which they may deem necessary. Such clerical help  shall  perform  their  duties  under  the direction and control of the chairman and inspectors of election.