Section 211-A. Special provisions applicable to the Fishers Island garbage and refuse district

1.  Effective  January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-nine,  the number of district commissioners of the Fishers Island
  garbage and refuse district shall be increased by two to a total of five
  commissioners, consisting of the offices of three district commissioners
  which already exist pursuant to section four of  chapter  three  hundred
  sixty-eight  of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty-three and section two
  hundred eleven of this article and two additional  offices  of  district
  commissioners.  The  original  terms  of  office  of  the three district
  commissioners whose offices already exist shall continue until the dates
  they would otherwise next expire in the absence of this section.
    2. At the annual  district  election  in  the  year  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-eight,  conducted in the manner prescribed by section two hundred
  twelve of this article, the three vacancies in the offices  of  district
  commissioners  which  arise  by reason of the creation of two additional
  offices of district commissioners on  January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-nine pursuant to subdivision one of this section and by reason of
  the  expiration  of  the term of office of the one district commissioner
  whose  term  expires  on   December   thirty-first,   nineteen   hundred
  ninety-eight   pursuant   to  section  four  of  chapter  three  hundred
  sixty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred fifty-three (and as provided
  in such  section,  pursuant  to  section  two  hundred  eleven  of  this
  article), shall be filled. At such election, the qualified voters of the
  district  shall  elect  one  commissioner for a term of three years, one
  commissioner for a term of four years and one commissioner for a term of
  five years.
    3. At each annual district election conducted subsequent to  the  year
  nineteen  hundred  ninety-eight, the single vacancy arising each year by
  reason of the expiration of the term  of  office  of  one  of  the  five
  district  commissioners  on December thirty-first of that year, shall be
  filled by the election to such office for a term  of  five  years  of  a
  resident of the district who is qualified to vote for a town officer.