2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 6 - Town Elections › 84 - Qualifications of Electors at Town Elections.

§ 84. Qualifications of electors at town elections. 1. No person shall
  be  entitled  to vote upon any proposition for raising, appropriating or
  expending money or incurring any town liability,  or  for  the  sale  or
  other  disposition  of  town  land  or  property, unless he or she is an
  elector of the town; nor shall he or she be entitled to  vote  upon  any
  proposition  for  raising, appropriating or expending money or incurring
  any liability which shall be a charge wholly against  a  district  or  a
  portion of said town unless he or she is an elector.
2.  The  town  board of a town may, by resolution adopted at a regular
  meeting, determine that thereafter personal registration of voters shall
  be required for special town elections. Such resolution and  the  notice
  hereinafter  provided  for  shall  specify the day or days, the place or
  places, and the hours during which a board  or  boards  of  registration
  shall meet for the purpose of preparing a register of voters of the town
  qualified   to  vote  in  such  special  elections,  who  shall  present
  themselves personally for registration for such  special  election.  The
  town  clerk  shall  give  notice  at  the  expense  of  the town, by the
  publication of a notice in a newspaper published in said town, if  there
  be  any,  or,  if  there be none, in a newspaper published in the county
  having general circulation in the town, specifying the day or days,  the
  place  or  places,  and  hours  during  which  the  board  or  boards of
  registration will meet for  the  purpose  of  preparing  a  register  of
  qualified  voters  of  the  town  as provided in this section. The first
  publication of such notice shall be at least ten days prior to the first
  day fixed by the town board on which boards of registration shall  meet.
  In  addition,  the  town  clerk shall post or cause to be posted in five
  conspicuous places in said town copies of such notice at least ten  days
  prior  to  the  first day fixed by the town board on which the boards of
  registration shall meet.
3. In such event, the  town  board  shall  select  from  the  list  of
  election inspectors previously designated for general election purposes,
  not  less  than  two nor more than four persons to constitute a board of
  registration for  each  voting  place  designated  by  the  town  board,
  provided,  however, a town board may, by resolution adopted at a regular
  meeting, determine that one or more  boards  of  registration  shall  be
  reasonably   capable   of   carrying   out   the  personal  registration
  requirements, as  provided  in  this  section,  for  all  voting  places
  designated  for  such  special  town election. Each member of a board of
  registration shall be entitled to compensation at a rate to be fixed  by
  the town board for time spent upon the duties of his office.
4.  Such  boards  of  registration shall meet on such days as the town
  board shall, by said resolution designate, the last day of  which  shall
  not  be  more than fifteen nor less than ten days preceding such special
  town election at the place in each election district where the  election
  is  to  be  held,  and  at such hours as the town board shall designate,
  which shall include at  least  four  consecutive  hours  between  twelve
  o'clock  noon  and  nine o'clock in the evening of each day required for
  the preparation of the register for such election, which shall  include,
  at  a  minimum, a space for the name of the voter and his address within
  the town, a space for the voter's signature to be signed on the  day  of
  the   election  and  a  space  in  which  there  shall  be  entered  the
  qualifications  for  voters  as  provided  by  this  section.  All   the
  provisions of the election law in relation to the registration of voters
  shall,  so  far as applicable, apply to the registration provided for by
  this section and such special elections in such towns shall be conducted
  in the manner provided by this chapter and the election law, except that
  no person shall be entitled to vote thereat whose name does  not  appear

  upon  the register of the voting place in which he claims to be entitled
  to vote.
5.  In  order  to  assist boards of registration in the preparation of
  their registers, the town clerk, prior to  the  first  meeting  of  such
  boards  of registration, shall obtain from the board of elections of the
  county in which such town is located, the list of names and addresses of
  all voters registered with such board of  elections  on  or  before  the
  twenty-third  day  before  such  special  election. The town clerk shall
  deliver the names and addresses of qualified voters to  the  appropriate
  board  or  boards of registration on or before the first meeting of such
  board or boards. At the first and subsequent meetings of  the  board  of
  registration for each voting place designated by the town board for such
  special  town  election,  such  board of registration shall place on the
  register described in subdivision four hereof the names of all qualified
  voters and all other  qualified  voters  who  personally  appear,  those
  voters  who  have  made  application  for  early mail ballots, and those
  military voters and such other  voters  who  are  absent  by  reason  of
  confining  illness or physical disability or whose duties, occupation or
  business required them to be outside of the state of  New  York,  having
  the  qualifications  of  voters  prescribed in this section and who have
  made application for absentee ballots as certified to them by  the  town
  clerk.
6. The register prepared as provided in this section shall immediately
  upon  its  completion  and  not  more than eighteen hours thereafter; be
  filed in the office of the town  clerk,  and  thereafter  shall  at  all
  reasonable  times  be  open  to inspection by any qualified voter of the
  town on each day up to and including the day next preceding the day  set
  for such town election, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Additions, corrections, challenges and judicial review of registration
  procedure  shall  so far as practicable conform to sections 5-218, 5-220
  and 16-108 of the election law.