[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canton 11-10-1975 by L.L. No. 5-1975 as Ch. 11 of the 1975 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Section 3-302 of the Village Law, as amended, is amended by adding thereto the following:
Except that the term of office of the Village Clerk and Village Treasurer of the Village of Canton, heretofore combined, shall be indefinite and such position is hereby placed in the competitive class of the classified civil service. An incumbent who has been employed in such position for a period of not less than five years immediately prior to the adoption of this chapter shall continue to hold such position as a competitive class employee without further examination. The Village Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Canton shall not perform any duties inconsistent with the status as a classified civil service employee, but such duties shall be assigned by the Board of Trustees to officers other than the Village Clerk.
Section 4-402 of the Village Law is further amended to read as follows:
The Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Canton shall, subject to the direction and control of the Board of Trustees, have custody of the Corporate Seal and of the books, records and papers of the village and of all the official reports and communications to the Board. He shall keep an indexed record in a separate book of all village ordinances. He shall keep an accurate account of all orders drawn on the Treasurer of the village, showing the persons to whom, and the fund from which, the amount of each order is to be paid, unless the Board of Trustees shall by resolution determine that such accounts shall be kept by an auditor. He shall at all reasonable hours, on demand of any person, produce for inspection the books, records and papers of his office and shall furnish a copy of any portion thereof, certified in the proper form to be read in evidence, upon the payment of his fees therefor, at a rate of $0.20 per folio. If the Board of Trustees shall, by resolution, determine that the taxes and assessments of the village shall be collected by the Clerk, he shall collect the same as provided by this act. He shall also perform such other duties not inconsistent with his office as shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Trustees and shall as Village Clerk-Treasurer perform all the duties consistent with the office of Treasurer as prescribed by § 4-408, Treasurer, of the Village Law.
The Board of Trustees, by resolution duly adopted, may create the office of Deputy Clerk and authorize the Clerk to appoint one or more deputies. Each Deputy Clerk shall receive an annual compensation to be fixed by the Board of Trustees and shall perform such official duties as may be assigned to him by the Clerk. In case of absence or disability of the Clerk, the Deputy Clerk shall perform all of the duties of the Clerk as the Board of Trustees shall direct.
[Added 5-21-2018 by L.L. No. 2-2018]
A. 
Village Law § 3-302 includes the following provisions:
(1) 
Village Law § 3-302(1) provides that the Village's official year begins at noon 12:00 on the first Monday in the month following the date of the general Village election.
(2) 
Village Law § 3-302(3) provides that the term of office of the Clerk and Treasurer shall be two official years.
(3) 
Village Law § 3-302(6)(a) provides that the Board of Trustees of any village in which a resolution or local law has been adopted extending the term of office of the Mayor and Trustees to four years, by resolution or local law, and subject to permissive referendum, may extend the term of office of the Clerk or Treasurer, or both, to four years, except that the first term shall be of the required number of years so that it shall expire at the end of the term of office of the Mayor then in office. If such resolution or local law shall become effective, the offices, the term or terms of which have been extended, shall thereafter be filled for terms of four years, commencing at the expiration of the term of office of the Clerk or Treasurer, or both, in office at the time the resolution or local law is adopted.
B. 
Pursuant to the authority provided by the Village Law and the Municipal Home Rule Law, the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canton hereby extends to four years the term of office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the Village of Canton, to commence at the expiration of the current terms of said offices, subject to the following. The first such term shall expire at the end of the term of the Mayor then in office, with each succeeding term to be filled for four years.
C. 
This section is subject to permissive referendum pursuant to Village Law Article 9. Accordingly:
(1) 
Within 30 days after the adoption of this section there may be filed with the Village Clerk a petition signed and acknowledged by at least 20% of the electors of the Village of Canton, as shown on the register of electors for the previous general Village election, protesting against this section and requesting that it be submitted to the electors of the Village for their approval or disapproval. In such event, this section shall not take effect until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the Village voting on such proposition for its approval.
(2) 
If a valid petition section is not filed with the Village Clerk, then this section shall take effect 30 days after its adoption and upon filing with the Secretary of State.
D. 
This section shall be effective upon the date it is filed with the Secretary of State.