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3-300 – Eligibility for Election or Appointment To, and Continuance in Office.

§ 3-300 Eligibility for election or appointment to, and continuance in office. 1. In addition to any other legal requirements or prohibitions, no person shall be eligible to be elected or appointed as mayor, trustee or member of any board or commission, and, no person, if elected or appointed to such office, shall be eligible […]

3-301 – Village Officers.

§ 3-301 Village officers. 1. Every village shall have the following officers: a. a mayor; b. four trustees, except that the board of trustees of a village may change the number of trustees as authorized by section 3-304 of this article; c. a treasurer; d. a clerk. 2. Any village may have the following officers: […]

3-303 – Additional Village Justices in Certain Villages.

§ 3-303 Additional village justices in certain villages. At least one hundred fifty days prior to any village general election and subject to a permissive referendum, as provided by article nine of this title, the board of trustees of the following villages may adopt a resolution determining that such village shall have three village justices […]

3-304 – Changing Number of Trustees.

§ 3-304 Changing number of trustees. The board of trustees by resolution or local law, subject to permissive referendum, may change the number of trustees. Such action shall be in accordance with the following: a. If the number of trustees be increased, the additional trustees shall be elected at the next general village election when […]

3-306 – Official Undertakings.

§ 3-306 Official undertakings. The board of trustees on behalf of the village or the board in control of a village owned utility plant shall post an official undertaking in such sum and form, and with such sureties as the board of trustees or the board in control of the village owned utility plant shall […]

3-308 – Separate Boards of Commissioners.

§ 3-308 Separate boards of commissioners. 1. The board of trustees may establish or abolish a board or boards of fire, ambulance, water, light, sewer, park or cemetery commissioners or a single municipal board having the powers, duties and responsibilities of two or more such separate boards. 2. The board of trustees may also establish […]

3-310 – Abolition of Separate or Municipal Boards.

§ 3-310 Abolition of separate or municipal boards. If a resolution or local law is adopted by the board of trustees abolishing any separate board, the abolition of such board or boards shall take effect immediately. The clerk of the village shall forthwith notify the members of such board or boards in writing and they […]

3-312 – Filling of Offices and Vacancies by Election or Appointment.

§ 3-312 Filling of offices and vacancies by election or appointment. 1. Elective offices shall be filled at the general village election next preceding the expiration of the terms thereof. 2. Appointive offices shall be filled at the annual meeting immediately following the expiration of the terms thereof or, in the case of newly established […]