2012 New York Consolidated Laws
TWN - Town
Article 11 - (170 - 189) 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.