Section 84. Qualifications of electors at town elections

1. No person
  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  upon   any   proposition   for   raising,
  appropriating or expending money or incurring any town liability, or for
  the sale or other disposition of town land or property, unless he or she
  is  an elector of the town; nor shall he or she be entitled to vote upon
  any  proposition  for  raising,  appropriating  or  expending  money  or
  incurring  any  liability  which  shall  be  a  charge  wholly against a
  district or a portion of said town unless he or she is an elector.
    2. The town board of a town may, by resolution adopted  at  a  regular
  meeting, determine that thereafter personal registration of voters shall
  be  required  for special town elections. Such resolution and the notice
  hereinafter provided for shall specify the day or  days,  the  place  or
  places,  and  the  hours  during which a board or boards of registration
  shall meet for the purpose of preparing a register of voters of the town
  qualified  to  vote  in  such  special  elections,  who  shall   present
  themselves  personally  for  registration for such special election. The
  town clerk shall give  notice  at  the  expense  of  the  town,  by  the
  publication  of a notice in a newspaper published in said town, if there
  be any, or, if there be none, in a newspaper  published  in  the  county
  having  general circulation in the town, specifying the day or days, the
  place or  places,  and  hours  during  which  the  board  or  boards  of
  registration  will  meet  for  the  purpose  of  preparing a register of
  qualified voters of the town as provided  in  this  section.  The  first
  publication of such notice shall be at least ten days prior to the first
  day  fixed by the town board on which boards of registration shall meet.
  In addition, the town clerk shall post or cause to  be  posted  in  five
  conspicuous  places in said town copies of such notice at least ten days
  prior to the first day fixed by the town board on which  the  boards  of
  registration shall meet.
    3.  In  such  event,  the  town  board  shall  select from the list of
  election inspectors previously designated for general election purposes,
  not less than two nor more than four persons to constitute  a  board  of
  registration for each voting place designated by the town board for such
  special  town  election. Each member of a board of registration shall be
  entitled to compensation at a rate to be fixed by  the  town  board  for
  time spent upon the duties of his office.
    4.  Such  boards  of  registration shall meet on such days as the town
  board shall, by said resolution designate, the last day of  which  shall
  not  be  more than fifteen nor less than ten days preceding such special
  town election at the place in each election district where the  election
  is  to  be  held,  and  at such hours as the town board shall designate,
  which shall include at  least  four  consecutive  hours  between  twelve
  o'clock  noon  and  nine o'clock in the evening of each day required for
  the preparation of the register for such election, which shall  include,
  at  a  minimum, a space for the name of the voter and his address within
  the town, a space for the voter's signature to be signed on the  day  of
  the   election  and  a  space  in  which  there  shall  be  entered  the
  qualifications  for  voters  as  provided  by  this  section.  All   the
  provisions of the election law in relation to the registration of voters
  shall,  so  far as applicable, apply to the registration provided for by
  this section and such special elections in such towns shall be conducted
  in the manner provided by this chapter and the election law, except that
  no person shall be entitled to vote thereat whose name does  not  appear
  upon  the register of the voting place in which he claims to be entitled
  to vote.
    5. In order to assist boards of registration  in  the  preparation  of
  their  registers,  the  town  clerk,  prior to the first meeting of such
  boards of registration, shall obtain from the board of elections of  the

  county in which such town is located, the list of names and addresses of
  all  voters  registered  with  such  board of elections on or before the
  twenty-third day before such special  election.  The  town  clerk  shall
  deliver  the  names and addresses of qualified voters to the appropriate
  board or boards of registration on or before the first meeting  of  such
  board  or  boards.  At the first and subsequent meetings of the board of
  registration for each voting place designated by the town board for such
  special town election, such board of registration  shall  place  on  the
  register described in subdivision four hereof the names of all qualified
  voters  and  all other qualified voters who personally appear, and those
  military voters and such other  voters  who  are  absent  by  reason  of
  confining  illness or physical disability or whose duties, occupation or
  business required them to be outside of the state of  New  York,  having
  the  qualifications  of  voters  prescribed in this section and who have
  made application for absentee ballots as certified to them by  the  town
  clerk.
    6. The register prepared as provided in this section shall immediately
  upon  its  completion  and  not  more than eighteen hours thereafter; be
  filed in the office of the town  clerk,  and  thereafter  shall  at  all
  reasonable  times  be  open  to inspection by any qualified voter of the
  town on each day up to and including the day next preceding the day  set
  for such town election, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
    Additions, corrections, challenges and judicial review of registration
  procedure  shall  so far as practicable conform to sections 5-218, 5-220
  and 16-108 of the election law.