[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Chester 12-12-2018 by L.L. No. 6-2018. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A.
Whenever a proposition shall have been adopted in the Town for the
establishment of the ward system and the election thereafter of one
Councilman from each ward, the Town Board shall divide the Town into
four wards and fix the boundaries thereof, unless a proposition shall
have been adopted to increase the number of councilmen from four to
six, in which instance, the Town Board shall divide the Town into
six wards and fix the boundaries thereof.
B.
The division of the ward districts shall be made so that the number
of inhabitants of each ward, based upon the last regular federal census,
shall be substantially equal, with the wards composed of convenient
and contiguous territory in as compact form as practicable. No election
district heretofore or hereinafter created under the Election Law
shall contain parts of two or more wards.
C.
The Town Board shall make appropriate revisions of the boundaries
of the wards so that they shall contain a substantially equal number
of inhabitants not later than six months after the publication of
the results of a regular federal census which indicated that the districts
do not contain a substantially equal number of inhabitants.
D.
When the Town Board shall have finally determined the boundaries
of the wards, it shall cause a map of the Town to be prepared, which
shows, in detail, the location of each ward and the boundaries thereof.
The original map so made shall be filed in the office of the Town
Clerk, and copies thereof shall be filed in the offices of the County
Clerk and the Board of Elections of Orange County. The ward system
shall be deemed established after such filing is complete.
E.
After the initial establishment of the ward district boundaries,
the Town Board shall have the authority to modify those boundaries
in accordance with the provisions of applicable law.
