2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11-A - Joint Fire Districts in Towns and Villages › 189-E - Management of Affairs of Joint Fire Districts.

§ 189-e. Management of affairs of joint fire districts. Subject to the
  restrictions  hereinafter established, the property and affairs of joint
  fire districts shall be under the management and control and  in  charge
  of a board of not less than three and not more than seven commissioners,
  appointed  by the town board of the town or the town boards of the towns
  and the board of trustees of the village or the boards  of  trustees  of
  the  villages  in  joint  session as hereinafter provided, or elected as
  provided in article eleven of this chapter,  as  may  be  determined  by
  resolution  adopted at the meeting for the establishment of the district
  in the same manner as  the  resolution  for  the  establishment  of  the
  district  is  adopted;  or as may be determined by a joint consolidation
  agreement or elector initiated consolidation  plan  in  accordance  with
  article  seventeen-A  of  the  general  municipal  law.  In  case  it is
  determined that the  commissioners  shall  be  selected  in  the  manner
  provided by article eleven of this chapter, the appointments as provided
  for  in  subdivision  one  of  section  one hundred seventy-four of this
  chapter shall be made by the town board, or, if  the  district  includes
  territory  in  more than one town, by the town board of all of the towns
  at a joint  session  held  at  one  location  within  the  district  and
  thereafter elections shall be held as provided in article eleven of this
  chapter  except  that  the  terms  of  the  commissioners  shall  be  as
  hereinafter provided. They shall be residents of such  district  and  in
  case  selection  is  made  as provided in article eleven of this chapter
  there shall be no other residential requirement, but otherwise if  there
  are an even number of commissioners not more than half at any time shall
  be residents of such village or villages and if there are an odd number,
  the  number  that  are  residents  of such village or villages shall not
  exceed the number that are residents of such town or towns by more  than
  one. First appointments hereunder shall be made in the following manner:
  If  there be three commissioners, the term of one shall expire one year,
  of another two years and of the other three years  from  the  then  next
  ensuing  thirty-first  day  of  December,  and  thereafter  one shall be
  appointed annually for a term of  three  years  from  the  date  of  the
  expiration   of   the   term  of  his  predecessor.  If  there  be  four
  commissioners, the term of one shall expire one  year,  of  another  two
  years, of another three years, and of the other four years from the then
  next  ensuing  thirty-first day of December, and thereafter one shall be
  appointed annually for a term  of  four  years  from  the  date  of  the
  expiration   of   the   term  of  his  predecessor.  If  there  be  five
  commissioners, the term of one shall expire one  year,  of  another  two
  years,  of  another three years, of another four years, and of the other
  five years from the then next ensuing thirty-first day of December,  and
  thereafter one shall be appointed annually for a term of five years from
  the date of the expiration of a term of his predecessor. If there be six
  commissioners,  the  term  of  one shall expire one year, of another two
  years, of another three  years,  of  another  four  years,  and  of  the
  remaining two, five years from the then next ensuing thirty-first day of
  December,  and  thereafter appointments shall be made for a term of five
  years from the date of the expiration of the term of each  commissioner.
  If  there be seven commissioners, the term of one shall expire one year,
  of another two years, of another three years, and of two of  the  others
  four  years,  and  of  the  remaining two, five years from the then next
  ensuing thirty-first day of December, and thereafter appointments  shall
  be  made for a term of five years from the date of the expiration of the
  term of each  commissioner.  Such  board  of  commissioners  may  employ
  necessary  labor  and  assistants,  at  a  compensation approved by such
  boards  in  joint  session.  Such   commissioners   shall   receive   no
  compensation  for  their services, but they and their employees shall be

  allowed and paid their necessary expenses, payable as  expenses  of  the
  district.