This Article is adopted pursuant to the provisions
of the Municipal Home Law of the State of New York.
The term of office of the elected Town Supervisor and Town Superintendent of Highways shall be four years. Such four-year term shall commence as of the first day of January 1996 and shall apply to the person elected to such office at the biennial town election to be held on November 7, 1995, and to those elected thereafter, provided that a proposition submitted pursuant to §
25-10 below is approved.
This Article is adopted subject to a mandatory
referendum and shall be submitted for approval of the qualified voters
of the Town of Red Hook at the biennial town election to be held on
November 7, 1995. A proposition in the following form shall be included
on the ballot at such biennial town election, and the increased term
of office shall not take effect unless such proposition is approved
by a majority vote of the qualified voters voting thereon:
"Shall Local Law No. 3 1995, entitled 'A Local
Law Increasing the Term of Office of Town Supervisor and Town Highway
Superintendent from Two to Four Years' be approved?"
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This Article shall supersede Town Law § 24,
relating to the term of office for Town Supervisor and Town Highway
Superintendent of the Town of Red Hook.