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10-1010 - Election of Company Officers and Delegates.

NY Vill L § 10-1010 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 10-1010 Election of company officers and delegates. Each of the several companies whose members constitute the fire department of the village shall hold an annual meeting on the first Tuesday in April in each year, except those fire companies constituting the fire department of the village of Fishkill, Dutchess county, which shall hold such annual meetings on the first Tuesday in December of each year. At such meeting the members of each company shall elect by ballot from their own number a captain and a lieutenant, and such further officers if any as may be provided for in the by-laws of the company, who must be approved by the board of fire commissioners, one warden and one delegate to the general convention of the fire department. The terms of office of the captain and lieutenant and such further officers if any, as are elected as herein provided, shall be one year, the wardens two years, and the delegates three years, respectively, and any vacancies occurring in any such offices shall be filled by election in like manner. At the first annual meeting after this act takes effect two wardens and three delegates shall be elected, the wardens to serve for one and two years, respectively, and the delegates for one, two and three years, respectively. Any person who has been convicted of arson in any degree shall not be eligible for election to the office of captain, lieutenant, warden, delegate and any other offices provided for in the by-laws of the company. Any captain, lieutenant, warden, delegate or other officer of the company who is convicted of arson in any degree during his term of office shall be disqualified from completing such term of office.

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10-1010 - Election of Company Officers and Delegates.