§ 24. Terms of office.
All elective officers other than Town councilmen,
Town justices, Town clerks, receivers of taxes and assessors shall
hold their respective offices for two 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 years each for two
Town councilmen and four years each for two Town councilmen, and thereafter
at each biennial Town election there shall be elected two Town councilmen
for terms of four years each.
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The terms of office of the Town justices, elective
Town clerks and elective receivers of taxes and assessments shall
be four years. The terms of office of the assessors, when elected,
shall be two years for one assessor and four years each for two assessors;
when appointed, two years, except as provided by § 22-a
of this chapter. The term of each elective officer shall begin on
the first day of January next succeeding the election at which he
was elected. 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.
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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 years, provided that the electors of any of such
towns have approved a proposition to increase such term to four years
at a mandatory referendum.
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