[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Port Jefferson as Ch. 3 of the 1970 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
An annual election shall be held in the Village
of Port Jefferson on the third Tuesday in June.
[Amended 6-11-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992]
A.ย
It is intended by this section to change or supersede
the provisions of ยงย 15-104 of the Election Law, as amended,
as to the date of holding an annual election. The pertinent parts
of said ยงย 15-104 hereby changed and superseded are as follows:[1]
"An annual election shall be held in each Village
on the third Tuesday in [March] June, [except that in
any Village in Suffolk or Nassau county which has heretofore elected
its officers on the third Tuesday in June or has heretofore adopted
a resolution to elect its officers on the day specified or which has
adopted a proposition as herein provided to hold its annual election
on the third Tuesday in June, such Villages may elect and continue
to elect its officers on that day and] except that Villages which
shall have provided that the term of mayor and trustees shall be four
years may adopt a resolution providing that elections shall be held
biennially and thereafter an election shall be held biennially except
that in the event the term of any elected official in office at the
time of the adoption of the resolution shall expire in a year which
would require an election to be held in a year other than that prescribed
by the resolution which by its terms requires biennial elections,
an election shall be held in such year, and there shall be elected
to such office a successor of such official for a term to commence
upon the expiration of the term of such incumbent, and to end at noon
on the first Monday in the month following the Village election in
the fifth calendar year following, and the successors of such officials
so elected shall be elected for terms of four official years. [A Village
of the third or fourth class may by the adoption at an annual or special
election of a proposition therefor, hold its annual election on the
third Tuesday in June.]"
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[1]
Editor's Note: Material in boldface is new;
matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
B.ย
Except as changed or superseded herein, all other
provisions of ยงย 15-104 of the Election Law shall remain
in full force and effect.