New York § 80 - 80Biennial town elections

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 80 — 80Biennial town elections, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 80. 80Biennial town elections

§ 80. Biennial town elections. Notwithstanding any provision of any general, special or local law, charter, code, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation to the contrary, a biennial town election for the election of town officers, other than town justices or any town office with a three-year term prior to January first, two thousand twenty-five, and for the consideration of such questions as may be proposed by the town board or the duly qualified electors, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November of every even-numbered year. All other town elections are special elections. A town election or special town election held pursuant to this chapter, shall be construed as a substitute, for a town meeting or a special town meeting heretofore provided to be held by law, and a reference in any law to a town meeting or special town meeting shall be construed as referring to a town election or special town election. Any town completely coterminous with a village shall continue to elect its officers, including town justices, in odd-numbered years if both such village and town last held such elections in an odd-numbered year prior to January first, two thousand twenty-five.

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