2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 11 - Fire, Fire Alarm and Fire Protection Districts › 175-A - Registration for Voters.

§  175-a. Registration for voters.  1. The board of fire commissioners
of any fire district may provide by resolution, that  a  proposition  be
submitted at any annual fire district election providing that additional
personal  registration  of  voters  not  registered  with  the  board of
elections shall be permitted for all elections in  such  fire  district.
Such  additional personal registration may be terminated by a resolution
of the board of fire commissioners and the passage of a  proposition  at
any annual fire district election.
2.  Registration for all fire 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  fire  district  register  pursuant  to  the
provisions of this section shall be entitled to vote in such district.
(b)  In  fire  districts  in  which  there  is   additional   personal
registration, the board of fire 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 fire 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  a  fire  district  whose  electors  have  approved additional
personal  registration,  such  registration  shall  be   held   on   the
seventeenth  day  prior  to the annual fire district election, except in
those fire 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 fire district election. Such
resolution shall remain  in  effect  for  subsequent  annual  elections,
unless amended, modified or repealed.
3.  The  register  for  the  annual  fire  district  election shall be
prepared in each fire 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  fire  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 fire district and
qualified to vote in such forthcoming annual fire district election  and
in  those instances in which additional persons are entitled to register
pursuant to this section, 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 fire district shall include as a minimum the
space  for  the  name of the voter, his address within the fire 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 any. If
the register  shall  contain  only  space  for  the  name,  address  and
signature  of  the  voter,  the  fire 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  fire  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.
4.  The  fire  district  secretary  shall  furnish  the  inspectors of
election, at fire district  expense,  with  all  necessary  registration
books, papers, equipment and supplies.
5.  Registration  for special fire district elections shall be held in
the  same  manner  as  is  provided  herein  for  annual  fire  district
elections,  and  registration days therefor shall be the same as if said
special fire district election were the annual fire district election.
6. In lieu of the provisions for designating  the  chairman,  election
inspectors and ballot clerks, as set forth in subdivision one of section
one   hundred   seventy-five   of   this  chapter,  the  board  of  fire
commissioners shall, by resolution adopted at least forty days prior  to
the  annual  fire  district election, designate a resident fire district
elector 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 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 fire 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.