2023 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.