Thursday, March 3, 2016

Brooklyn Election Rules...

To stash this somewhere...HB5388 is a proposed amendment to the special act that currently governs Brooklyn's elections:

http://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p128501coll3/id/61462

[256.] AN ACT PROVIDING FOR BIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF BROOKLYN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: SECTION 1. At the annual town election of the town of Brooklyn to be held on the first Monday of October, 1929, and biennially there­after, there shall be elected three selectmen, two auditors, five constables, a collector of taxes, one member of the board of assessors, one member of the board of relief and three members of the town school committee, each of whom shall hold office for two years from the date of his election or until his successor shall have been elected and shall have qualified. There shall also be elected, at said election and biennially thereafter, a town clerk and a town treasurer, each of whom shall hold office for two years from the first Monday in January next succeeding his election. There shall also be elected, at said election, one member of the board of assessors, one member of the board of relief and three members of the town school committee, each of whom shall hold office for one year from the first Monday of October, 1930, or until his successor shall have been elected and shall have qualified. SEC. 2. At the biennial town election of the town of Brooklyn to be held on the first Monday of October, 1931, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected three members of the board of assessors, three mem­bers of the board of relief and nine members of the town school committee, each of whom shall hold office for two years from the date of his election or until his successor shall have been elected and shall have qualified. SEC. 3. If the number of officers to be elected under the provisions of this act shall be even, no person shall vote for more than one-half of the number and, if the number to be elected shall be odd, no person shall vote for more than a bare majority of the number. SEC. 4. The electors of the town of Brooklyn are authorized to vote at town meetings in the same manner as they are authorized to vote at electors' meetings under the provisions of an act dividing the town of Brooklyn into voting districts, approved April 12, 1883, mutatis mutandis. Approved May 8, 1929.

http://cslib.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p128501coll3/id/63053

[367.] AN ACT AMENDING AN ACT PROVIDING FOR BIENNIAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF BROOKLYN. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: Section two of an act providing for biennial elections in the town of Brooklyn, approved May 8, 1929, is amended to read as follows: At the biennial election of the town of Brooklyn to be held on the first Monday of October, 1931. and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected three mem­bers of the board of assessors, and three members of the board of relief, each of whom shall hold office for two years from the date of his election and until his successor shall be elected and shall have qualified; and there shall be elected at said biennial election held on the first Monday of Oc­tober, 1931, and biennially thereafter, six members of the town school com­mittee, three of whom shall be from each major political party, and each of whom shall hold office for two years from the date of his election or until his successor shall be elected and shall have qualified. Approved May 8, 1931.

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