2006 New York Code - 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.  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.