2023 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repealed.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.