§ 171. Petition and hearing. 1. A petition to establish or extend a\nfire, fire alarm or fire protection district pursuant to the provisions\nof section one hundred seventy of this article shall be signed, and\nacknowledged or proved in the same manner as a deed to be recorded, or\nauthenticated in the manner provided by the election law for the\nauthentication of nominating petitions, by resident taxpayers owning\ntaxable real property aggregating at least one-half of the assessed\nvaluation of all the taxable real property of the proposed district or\nextension thereof owned by resident taxpayers, as such valuations appear\nupon the latest completed assessment roll of said town or towns, except\nthat where there are no resident taxpayers within a proposed fire\nprotection district or fire alarm district or a proposed extension of a\nfire district, fire protection district or fire alarm district then the\npetition shall be signed by non-resident taxpayers owning taxable real\nproperty aggregating at least one-half of the assessed valuation of all\nthe taxable real property in the proposed district or extension as shown\non such last completed assessment roll. If a portion only of a parcel of\nsuch real estate appearing upon the assessment roll is situated within\nthe proposed district or extension, then the town board or boards may\ndetermine the relative value of that part thereof within the proposed\ndistrict or extension, based upon the valuation of the entire parcel as\nthe same appears upon the assessment roll. If the boundaries of a\nproposed fire district as described in the petition therefor shall be\ncoterminous with those of an existing water supply district having no\nbonded indebtedness, the petition may provide for the dissolution of\nsuch water supply district upon the establishment of said fire district\nand the assumption by said fire district of all the liabilities and\nindebtedness of such water supply district.\n 2. a. The town board or town boards shall hold a public hearing upon\nsuch petition and shall cause a notice thereof to be published at least\nonce in a newspaper having general circulation in the territory\naffected, the first publication thereof to be not less than ten days nor\nmore than twenty days before the day designated therein for the hearing,\nand the town clerk or town clerks shall cause copies of such notice to\nbe posted on the sign-board of the town maintained pursuant to\nsubdivision six of section thirty of this chapter, and conspicuously in\nsuch other places within or without the territory affected as the town\nboard or town boards may direct, not less than ten nor more than twenty\ndays before the day designated for the hearing as aforesaid. In the\nevent that the town maintains a website, such information may also be\nprovided on the website. Such notice shall contain a description of the\nproposed district or extension, state the estimated rate per thousand\ndollars of assessed valuation, based on the aggregate assessed valuation\nof taxable real property of the proposed district or extension district\nshown in the latest completed final assessment roll, projected to be\nassessed, levied and collected for purposes of the proposed district or\nextended district for the fiscal year of its operation and specify the\ntime when and the place where the town board or boards will meet to\nconsider such petition and to hear all persons interested in the subject\nconcerning the same. If the petition shall provide for the dissolution\nof an existing water supply district upon the establishment of the fire\ndistrict, the notice of hearing shall so specify. If, upon the\nestablishment or extension of a fire district, the fire district would\nbecome the sponsor of a service award program pursuant to section two\nhundred sixteen-b of the general municipal law, the notice of hearing\nshall so specify and contain a statement of the estimated annual cost of\nthe service award program to the fi
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