§ 175-b. Absentee ballots for fire district elections; special\nprovisions. 1. The board of fire commissioners of any fire district in\nwhich officers are elected, may, by resolution, provide for absentee\nballots for fire district elections, in accordance with the provisions\nof this section. Such resolution shall take effect at the first such\nelection held more than sixty days after its adoption and shall continue\nin effect for all such elections until a subsequent resolution providing\notherwise shall, in like manner, have taken effect.\n 2. a. An applicant for such an absentee ballot shall submit an\napplication setting forth (1) his or her name and residence address,\nincluding the street and number, if any, or town and rural delivery\nroute, if any; (2) that he or she is or will be, on the day of the\nelection, a qualified voter of the district in which he or she resides\nin that he or she is or will be, on such date, over eighteen years of\nage, a citizen of the United States and has or will have resided in the\ndistrict for thirty days next preceding such date; (3) that he or she is\nregistered in the town; (4) that he or she will be unable to appear to\nvote in person on the day of the election for which the absentee ballot\nis requested because he or she is, or will be on such day (a) a patient\nin a hospital, or unable to appear personally at the polling place on\nsuch day because of illness or physical disability or (b) because his or\nher duties, occupation or business will require him or her to be outside\nof the county of his or her residence on such day, (c) because he or she\nwill be on vacation outside the county of his or her residence on such\nday; or, (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she\nis detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial or\nis confined in prison after conviction for an offense other than a\nfelony. Such application must be received by the district secretary at\nleast seven days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to\nthe voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be\ndelivered personally to the voter or his or her agent.\n b. (1) Where such duties, occupation or business are of such a nature\nas ordinarily to require such absence, a brief description of such\nduties, occupation or business shall be set forth in such affidavit.\n(2) Where such duties, occupation or business are not of such a nature\nas ordinarily to require such absence, such application shall contain a\nstatement of the special circumstances on account of which such absence\nis required.\n c. Where the applicant expects in good faith to be absent on the day\nof the election because he or she will be on vacation elsewhere on such\nday, such application shall also contain the dates upon which he or she\nexpects to begin and end such vacation, the place or places where he or\nshe expects to be on such vacation, the name and address of his or her\nemployer, if any, and if self-employed, a statement to that effect.\n d. Where the absence is because of detention or confinement to jail,\nsuch affidavit shall state whether the voter is detained awaiting action\nof the grand jury or is confined after conviction for an offense other\nthan a felony.\n e. Where a person is or would be, if he or she were a qualified\nvoter, entitled to apply for the right to vote by absentee ballot under\nthe provisions of this section, his or her spouse, parent or child, if a\nqualified voter and a resident of the same district, shall be entitled\nto vote as an absentee voter upon personally making and signing an\napplication in accordance with the preceding provisions of this\nsubdivision and showing that he or she expects to be absent from the\ndistrict on the day of the district election by reason of accompanying\nor being with the spouse, child or parent who is or would be, if he or\nshe were a qualified voter, so entitled to apply for the right to vote\nby abse
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