NY Town L § 175 (2021)
2021 New York Laws TWN - Town Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts 175 - Election of Fire District Officers.

§ 175. Election of fire district officers. 1. An annual election shall   be  held in each fire district on the second Tuesday in December, except   that in the Ocean Bay Park fire district, the Lonelyville fire district,   the Davis Park fire district, the Cherry Grove fire district,  the  Fair   Harbor  fire  district  and the Fire Island Pines fire district, Suffolk   county, such annual election shall be held  on  the  second  Tuesday  in   July, except that in the town of Salisbury, Herkimer county, such annual   election  shall  be held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday   in November from six o'clock in the morning until nine  o'clock  in  the   evening  and  except that in the Belfast fire district, Allegany county,   such annual election shall be held on the first Tuesday in December. The   board of fire commissioners shall give notice thereof by the publication   of a notice once in one or more newspapers having a general  circulation   in  the district. The first publication of such notice shall be not less   than twenty-seven days and not more than thirty-four days prior  to  the   date  of  such election. Such notice shall specify the time when and the   place where such election will be  held,  the  officers  to  be  elected   thereat  and their terms of office, and the hours during which the polls   will be open for the receipt of ballots.  The  secretary  of  such  fire   district  shall  prepare  the ballots for all elections of fire district   officers and the polls shall remain open for the receipt thereof at  all   elections  of  fire  district  officers  from six o'clock in the evening   until nine o'clock in the evening and such additional consecutive  hours   prior  thereto  as  the board of fire commissioners of such district may   have determined and specified in the notice thereof. The board  of  fire   commissioners  shall  designate  a  resident  fire district elector, who   shall be a registered voter of the town,  to  act  as  chairman  of  any   election of said district and shall designate not less than two nor more   than  four  resident  fire  district  electors,  who shall be registered   voters of the town to act as election inspectors and  ballot  clerks  at   such  elections. No elective officer of the fire district shall serve as   such chairman or as an election inspector or ballot clerk. The board  of   fire  commissioners may adopt a resolution providing that such chairman,   election inspectors and ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective   services at any such annual election or at any special election  of  the   fire district. Such resolution, if adopted, shall fix the amount of such   compensation,  as  follows:  if the hours during which the polls will be   open for the receipt of ballots are from  six  o'clock  in  the  evening   until  nine  o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed seventy dollars   for each such official; if additional consecutive  hours  prior  to  six   o'clock  in  the  evening  are determined and specified in the notice of   election, a sum  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  such   official.2.  Every  elector of the town who shall be a registered voter and who   shall have resided in the district for the period of  thirty  days  next   preceding  any  election of fire district officers shall be qualified to   vote for such officers. Every  elector  of  the  town  who  shall  be  a   registered voter and who shall have resided in the fire district for the   period of thirty days next preceding any election at which a proposition   shall be submitted, shall be qualified to vote upon such proposition.3.  Every  fire district commissioner, treasurer and secretary must at   the time of his election or  appointment  and  throughout  his  term  of   office  be  a  resident of such fire district. Membership in a volunteer   fire company shall not disqualify any such fire  district  commissioner,   treasurer  or secretary. A person who has been convicted of arson in any   degree shall not be eligible for election or appointment to  the  office   of fire district commissioner, treasurer or secretary. Any fire district   commissioner,  treasurer  or  secretary who is convicted of arson in any    degree during his term of office shall be disqualified  from  completing   such term of office.4.  There shall be conspicuously placed, by the resident fire elector,   distance markers at a distance of one  hundred  feet  from  the  polling   place.  Such  distance markers shall be so placed at least one-half hour   before the opening of the polls and shall remain until  such  polls  are   closed.  The  one hundred foot distance shall be deemed to include a one   hundred foot radial measured  from  the  entrances,  designated  by  the   resident  fire elector, to a building where such election is being held.   While the polls are open no person shall do  any  electioneering  within   the  polling  place, or in any public street within the one hundred foot   radial, or within such distance in any place  in  a  public  manner.  No   electioneering  banner,  button,  poster  or  placard on behalf of or in   opposition to any candidate or issue to be voted upon shall  be  allowed   in  or  upon the polling place or within such one hundred feet therefrom   during the election. Any person who willfully violates the provisions of   this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.5. All official ballots  shall  remain  in  the  custody  of  election   inspectors  within the polling place from the opening of the polls until   the announcement of the result of the canvass and  the  signing  of  the   inspectors'  returns  thereof. After the polls shall have been closed at   any election held for the election of fire district officers or to  vote   upon  a  proposition,  the  election  inspectors and ballot clerks shall   immediately canvass publicly the ballots cast and the  chairman  of  the   election  shall  publicly  announce the result. Within seventy-two hours   thereafter, the chairman, election inspectors and  ballot  clerks  shall   execute  and  file  a  certificate of the result of the canvass with the   board of fire commissioners and with the town  clerk  of  each  town  in   which said district or any part thereof may be located.6.  If  in  any  fire  district the number of voters is so great as to   render it inexpedient or impossible  to  conduct  the  election  at  one   polling  place,  the  board  of  fire  commissioners may divide the fire   district into election districts and provide a polling  place  for  each   such  election  district, provided, however, that the number of election   districts in any fire district shall not exceed one for each six hundred   electors plus one for a remaining  fraction  of  six  hundred.  In  such   event,  the  notice  specified  in subdivision one of this section shall   describe the election districts and state where the polling places  will   be located, and the board of fire commissioners shall designate not less   than  two  nor more than four resident fire district electors, who shall   be registered voters of the town, to  act  as  election  inspectors  and   ballot  clerks  at  each  such polling place. The board of fire district   commissioners may  adopt  a  resolution  providing  that  such  election   inspectors and ballot clerks shall be paid for their respective services   at  any  such  annual  election  or  at any special election of the fire   district. Such resolution, if adopted, shall  fix  the  amount  of  such   compensation  as  follows:  if  the hours during which the polls will be   open for the receipt of ballots are from  six  o'clock  in  the  evening   until  nine  o'clock in the evening, a sum not to exceed seventy dollars   for each such official; if additional consecutive  hours  prior  to  six   o'clock  in  the  evening  are determined and specified in the notice of   election, a sum  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  such   official.  No  elective  officer  of the fire district shall serve as an   election inspector or ballot clerk.