N.Y. Town Law § 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.