Town of Huntington, NY
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2023-11-02
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 13 Public Officials
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Article I Term of Office
- VOLUME I
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Fair, Open and Accountable Government
- Ch 3 (Reserved)
- Ch 4 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 5 Assessment, Department of; Administrative Review of Assessments
- Ch 6 Audit and Control, Department of
- Ch 8 Beautification Advisory Council
- Ch 9 Citizens Advisory Committee for Persons With Disabilities
- Ch 10 Budget and Finances
- Ch 12 Capital Program
- Ch 13 Public Officials
- Ch 13 Art I Term of Office
- § 13-1 Amendment of Town Law.
- § 13-2 Establishment of term.
- § 13-3 Referendum required.
- § 13-4 through § 13-6. (Reserved)
- Ch 14 (Reserved)
- Ch 15 Commercial Fishing Advisory Council
- Ch 16 Comptroller
- Ch 19 Defense and Indemnification of Officers and Employees
- Ch 21 Environmental Open Space and Park Funds
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 25 Engineering Services, Department of
- Ch 27 Environmental Waste Management, Department of
- Ch 28 Ephedra Products
- Ch 29 Ethics
- Ch 30 (Reserved)
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 32 General Services, Department of
- Ch 35 Harbor and Boating Advisory Council
- Ch 36 Administrative Hearing Officer
- Ch 39 Human Services, Department of
- Ch 40 (Reserved)
- Ch 41 Local Laws, Adoption of
- Ch 42 Department of Information Technology
- Ch 43 Maritime Services, Department of
- Ch 44 Mass Transit Citizens' Advisory Council
- Ch 45 Citizens' Advisory Committee on Parking
- Ch 47 (Reserved)
- Ch 48 (Reserved)
- Ch 50 Public Nuisances
- Ch 51 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 52 Parks and Recreation, Department of
- Ch 52A Planning and Environment, Department of
- Ch 53 Public Disclosure by Contractors and Vendors
- Ch 54 Public Hearings: Time Limits for Action
- Ch 55 Public Safety, Department of
- Ch 57 Receiver of Taxes Department
- Ch 59 (Reserved)
- Ch 60 Senior Citizens' Board
- Ch 61 (Reserved)
- Ch 62 (Reserved)
- Ch 63 Supervisor, Department of
- Ch 64 Town Attorney, Department of
- Ch 64A Town Clerk, Department of
- Ch 65 Transportation and Traffic Safety
- Ch 66 (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Voluntary Mediation of Disputes
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 71 Administrative Search Warrants
- Ch 73 Advertising; Distribution of Circulars
- Ch 74 Affordable Housing
- Ch 76 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 82 (Reserved)
- Ch 87 Building Construction
- Ch 89 Business Improvement Districts
- Ch 90 Cannabis
- Ch 91 Carnivals, Circuses, Fairs and Amusement Events
- Ch 92 Clothes Drop-Off Bins
- Ch 93 Civil Enforcement and Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 94 Community Antenna Television Franchises
- Ch 95 Community Gardening Program
- Ch 96 Collateral Loan Brokers
- Ch 97 Consumer Protection
- Ch 98 Domestic Partnership Registry
- Ch 99 Dix Hills Water District
- Ch 100 (Reserved)
- Ch 104 Electrical Standards and Regulations
- Ch 106 (Reserved)
- Ch 108 Film Permits
- Ch 109 Firearms
- Ch 111 Fire Prevention
- Ch 114 (Reserved)
- Ch 115 Games of Chance
- Ch 117 Solid Waste Management: Collection, Recycling and Disposal
- Ch 119 Graffiti
- Ch 120 Harbors and Waterways
- Ch 124 Housing Standards and Property Maintenance
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 130 Junkyards
- Ch 132 Landscaping
- Ch 133 Littering and Dumping
- Ch 134 Local Waterfront Consistency Review
- Ch 135 Loitering, Parking and Congregating
- Ch 137 Marine Conservation and Regulation of Marine Structures
- Ch 141 Noise
- Ch 143 Outdoor Lighting
- Ch 145 Parades and Public Assemblages
- Ch 149 Peddlers and Solicitors
- Ch 150 Christmas Trees
- Ch 151 Petroleum and Other Fuel Products, Sale of
- Ch 153 Plumbing Regulations
- Ch 155 (Reserved)
- Ch 156 Property Maintenance; Nuisances
- Ch 156A Bamboo
- Ch 157 Public Benefit Incentives
- Ch 158 Public Benefit Funds
- VOLUME II
- Ch 159 Recreational Facilities
- Ch 160 Registration and Permitting of Property
- Ch 161 Senior Citizens: Condominium Conversions
- Ch 164 Sewer Use Management
- Ch 166 Shellfish Management
- Ch 168 Floodplain Management
- Ch 169 Coastal Erosion Management
- Ch 170 Stormwater Management
- Ch 171 Streams, Watercourses and Wetlands
- Ch 172 Land Conservation
- Ch 173 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 174 Liability of Town
- Ch 178 Taxation
- Ch 180 Taxicabs and Vehicles for Hire
- Ch 183 Tow Trucks and Towing for Hire
- Ch 184 Trapping
- Ch 186 Tree Preservation and Protection
- Ch 188 Trespassing and Encroachments
- Ch 189 Unmanned Aircraft Systems
- Ch 191 Unsafe and Damaged Buildings and Structures
- Ch 192 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 193 Recreational Vehicles
- Ch 194 Wireless Telecommunications Facilities
- Ch 195 Waste Management
- Ch 196 Wood and Coal Burning Appliances
- Ch 197 Planning, Design and Development
- Ch 198 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A202 Subdivision and Site Plan Regulations
- Ch A203 Trustees, Board of
- Ch A204 Zoning Board of Appeals Fees and Charges
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
- Traffic Code
- Chapters
- Ch TC1 General Provisions
- Ch TC2 Traffic Regulations
- Ch TC3 Parking Regulations
- Ch TC4 Parking Fields
- Ch TC5 Commercial and Construction Vehicles; Weight Limits
- Ch TC6 Miscellaneous Provisions
- Ch TC7 Traffic Violations Bureau
- Schedules
- Sch A Traffic Control Signals
- Sch B Prohibited Turns on Red Signals
- Sch C Prohibited Turns
- Sch D One-Way Streets
- Sch E Parking Area Exits/Entrances and/or Driveways
- Sch F Lane Designations
- Sch G Stop and Yield Intersections
- Sch H Speed Limits on Certain Streets
- Sch I School Speed Limits
- Sch J Parking, Stopping and Standing Restrictions
- Sch K Private Parking Fields
- Sch L Town Parking Fields
- Sch M Truck Exclusions
- Sch N Play Streets
- Sch O Commercial Vehicle and Truck Exclusions
- Sch P On-Street Metered Parking
- Traffic Code Disposition List
- Ch TCDL Disposition List
[Adopted 8-11-1981 by L.L. No. 2-1981]
Section 24 of the Town Law, in its application
to the Town of Huntington, is hereby amended to read as follows: "§ 24.
Terms of office. All elected officers other than Town Councilmen,
Justices of the Peace, Receivers of Taxes and Assessors and, in the
Town of Huntington, the Town Clerk, shall hold their respective offices
for two (2) years. The terms of office of the Town Councilmen first
elected after this chapter shall take effect and of the Town Councilmen
first elected in a Town which shall have changed its classification
from that of a Town of the second class to that of a Town of the first
class, shall be two (2) years each for two Town Councilmen and four
years each for two (2) Town Councilmen, and thereafter at each biennial
Town election there shall be elected two Town Councilmen for terms
of four (4) years each.
"The terms of office of the Justices of the
Peace and elective Receivers of Taxes and Assessments and, in the
Town of Huntington, the Town Clerk, shall be four (4) years. The terms
of office of the Assessors, when elected, shall be two (2) years for
one (1) Assessor and four (4) years each for two (2) Assessors; when
appointed, two years, except as provided by § 22-a of this
chapter. The term of each elective officer, except Collector and Justice
of the Peace to fill a vacancy, shall begin on the first day of January
next succeeding the election at which he was elected. Each Collector
and Justice of the Peace to fill a vacancy shall take office immediately
after his election upon qualifying as prescribed by law. The Town
Clerk, the Town Superintendent of Highways, the Receiver of Taxes
and Assessments, the Town Engineer and the Town Attorney, whenever
appointed, shall hold their respective offices until the first day
of January next succeeding the first biennial Town election held after
the time of their appointment. All other appointed officers and employees
shall hold their respective offices and positions at the pleasure
of the Town Board, except as otherwise provided by law.
"Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this section and the provisions of Subdivision 6 of § 20
of this chapter, the term of office of Town Clerks and Town Superintendents
of Highways in towns in the counties of Erie, Niagara, Dutchess and
Yates shall be four (4) years, provided that the electors of any such
towns have approved a proposition to increase such term to years at
a mandatory referendum."
The term of office of the Town Clerk, elected
at the election in November 1983 and of all Town Clerks elected thereafter
shall be four (4) years.
(A)
This article shall not take effect unless and until
it shall have been submitted to the electors of the Town of Huntington
at a general election of state or local government officers and have
received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such
election, and such act shall be submitted to the electors of the Town
of Huntington at the general election to be held in November 1981.
Upon approval by the people, the Article shall take effect immediately
upon filing three (3) certified copies thereof in the office of the
Secretary of State in Albany.
(B)
The ballots to be furnished for the use of the voters
upon the submission of this article shall be in the form prescribed
by the Election Law, and the proposition to be submitted shall be
printed thereon in substantially the following form, namely, "Shall
the local law adopted by the Huntington Town Board on August 11, 1981,
entitled 'A Local Law Providing for a Four-Year Term of Office for
the Town Clerk,' be approved?"[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law was approved
by a majority of the qualified voters at an election held 11-3-1981.
