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N.Y. Town Law § 209-F Application for permission of state comptroller to establish or extend district
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§ 209-f. Application for permission of state comptroller to establish or extend district. 1. Unless it is proposed or required that the town in which such district or extension is located shall finance the cost thereof by the issuance of the bonds, notes, certificates or other e…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-G Recording of determination; review by certiorari
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§ 209-g. Recording of determination; review by certiorari. 1. The town clerk shall cause a certified copy of the final order of the town board adopted pursuant to the provisions of this article, establishing or extending any district, or increasing the maximum amount proposed to…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-H Increase of maximum amount to be expended
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§ 209-h. Increase of maximum amount to be expended. 1. At any time after the establishment of an improvement district or of an extension thereof pursuant to the provisions of this article or any other applicable provision of law, the maximum amount proposed to be expended for th…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-I Refuse and garbage improvement districts
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§ 209-i. Refuse and garbage improvement districts. The purpose of a refuse and garbage improvement district created pursuant to this article may include, after complying with the provisions of this article for the establishment of such a district, the prevention or reduction of …
N.Y. Town Law § 209-Q Sewer, drainage or water improvements
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§ 209-q. Sewer, drainage or water improvements. 1. Definition and application. (a) The terms "sewer improvement" and/or "drainage improvement", as used in this section, shall mean any facility, service, function, activity or physical public betterment which may be provided by th…
N.Y. Town Law § 209-S Water and sewer district tax payments in the town of Carmel, Putnam county
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§ 209-s. Water and sewer district tax payments in the town of Carmel, Putnam county. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the town of Carmel, in Putnam county may correct, by resolution of the town, the omission of certain taxes due and owing by the town o…
N.Y. Town Law § 210 Application
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§ 210. Application. This article shall apply to any improvement district which shall have adopted a proposition therefor pursuant to subdivision ten of section three hundred forty-one of this chapter.
N.Y. Town Law § 211 District commissioners
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§ 211. District commissioners. In each such improvement district, there shall be an annual election on the second Tuesday in the month of December of each year. The terms of office of all district commissioners elected or appointed prior to the time this chapter takes effect, sh…
N.Y. Town Law § 211-A Special provisions applicable to the Fishers Island garbage and refuse district
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§ 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…
N.Y. Town Law § 212 Annual election and notice thereof
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§ 212. Annual election and notice thereof. The district commissioners of such improvement district shall publish at the expense of the district the notice of each election of improvement district commissioners held pursuant to this article. Such notice shall be published at leas…
N.Y. Town Law § 212-A Election of commissioners of Bethpage water district and Hicksville water district
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§ 212-a. Election of commissioners of Bethpage water district and Hicksville water district. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the annual election for commissioner of the Bethpage water district and the annual election for commissioner of the Hicksville water…
N.Y. Town Law § 213 Qualification of voters
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§ 213. Qualification of voters. No person shall be entitled to vote for improvement district commissioners unless he or she is a registered voter who shall have resided in the improvement district for a period of thirty days next preceding any election of commissioners.
N.Y. Town Law § 213-A Registration for voters and preparation of the voter register
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§ 213-a. Registration for voters and preparation of the voter register. 1. The board of commissioners of any improvement district in which commissioners are elected may provide by resolution that a proposition be submitted at any annual improvement district election providing th…
N.Y. Town Law § 213-B Absentee ballots for improvement district elections; special provisions
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§ 213-b. Absentee ballots for improvement district elections; special provisions. 1. The board of commissioners of any improvement district in which commissioners are elected, may, by resolution, provide for absentee ballots for the election of the commission, in accordance with…
N.Y. Town Law § 214 Oaths, undertakings and compensation of commissioners
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§ 214. Oaths, undertakings and compensation of commissioners. Each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the constitutional oath of office and execute to the town and file with the town clerk an official undertaking in such sum and with such sur…
N.Y. Town Law § 215 Powers and duties of improvement district commissioners
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§ 215. Powers and duties of improvement district commissioners. Subject to law and the provisions of this chapter, the commissioners of every improvement district shall constitute and be known as the board of commissioners of such improvement district. Such board of commissioner…
N.Y. Town Law § 215-A Postings on website of district
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§ 215-a. Postings on website of district. In addition to any public notice or publication requirements of any other general, special or local law, all public notices of the district, including, but not limited to, notices of public meetings and hearings, whether pursuant to this…
N.Y. Town Law § 216 Powers of town board
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§ 216. Powers of town board. Every petition for any purpose required by article twelve of this chapter to be initiated by petition shall be presented to the town board but no such petition for any such purpose within a district to which this article shall apply, shall be acted u…
N.Y. Town Law § 22-B Chairman of assessors; designation; duties and compensation
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§ 22-b. Chairman of assessors; designation; duties and compensation. The town board of any town having more than one assessor may establish the office of chairman of town assessors and at its first meeting in each year designate one of such assessors to be chairman until the fir…
N.Y. Town Law § 22-C Election and term of assessors in the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk
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§ 22-c. Election and term of assessors in the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the town board of the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, may by resolution subject to a permissive referendum, direct t…
N.Y. Town Law § 220 General town improvements
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§ 220. General town improvements. Upon the adoption of a resolution therefor, subject to a permissive referendum, the town board may: 1. Erect a monument or monuments within the town in commemoration of any person or event. 2. Purchase, lease, construct, alter or remodel a town …
N.Y. Town Law § 221 Solid waste management facilities
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§ 221. Solid waste management facilities. 1. Upon the adoption of a resolution therefor, subject to a permissive referendum, in a town of the first class, or, upon the adoption of a proposition therefor at a town election, in a town of the second class, the town board may provid…
N.Y. Town Law § 222 Town buildings
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§ 222. Town buildings. Whenever the town board, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall determine to erect, construct, alter or remodel any building, said town board shall cause detailed plans, specifications and estimates for such building or buildings to be prepared.…
N.Y. Town Law § 223 Expense of improvement
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§ 223. Expense of improvement. The expense of any public improvement made under authority of this article, shall include the amount of all contracts, the costs of all lands and interests therein necessarily acquired, printing, publishing, interest on loans, legal and engineering…
N.Y. Town Law § 23 Eligibility of town officers
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§ 23. Eligibility of town officers. 1. Every elective officer of the town at the time of his election and throughout his term of office, shall be an elector of the town. Every other officer of the town at the time of his appointment and throughout his term of office shall be an …
N.Y. Town Law § 23-A Residence requirement for comptroller of the town of Cortlandt
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* § 23-a. Residence requirement for comptroller of the town of Cortlandt. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or any other special, general or local law to the contrary, the town board of the town of Cortlandt in Westchester county, may, by resolution, provide that th…
N.Y. Town Law § 231 Permanent financing of district and special improvements
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§ 231. Permanent financing of district and special improvements. 1. When the cost of any improvement is to be borne by special assessment to be assessed and paid as provided in this subdivision, such improvement shall be temporarily financed pursuant to the local finance law unt…
N.Y. Town Law § 231-A Permanent financing of district improvements to be paid from general taxation
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§ 231-a. Permanent financing of district improvements to be paid from general taxation. When the cost of any improvement is to be assessed, levied and collected from the several lots and parcels of lands within a district in the same manner and at the same time as other town cha…
N.Y. Town Law § 232 Permanent financing of general improvements
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§ 232. Permanent financing of general improvements. The town board may provide for the payment of the cost of any public improvement or project authorized by subdivisions eleven-a or eleven-c of section sixty-four, or sections eighty-one, two hundred twenty or two hundred twenty…
N.Y. Town Law § 234 Disposition of proceeds of bonds, notes or certificates
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§ 234. Disposition of proceeds of bonds, notes or certificates. All moneys derived from the sale of bonds or notes shall be kept as a separate fund by the supervisor. Such moneys shall be disbursed only in the manner provided by section one hundred nineteen of this chapter.
N.Y. Town Law § 235 Accounts to be kept with each improvement
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§ 235. Accounts to be kept with each improvement. The supervisor shall keep accounts in the name of each improvement in such form as has been or may be formulated and prescribed by the state department of audit and control. He shall carefully preserve all coupons, certificates, …
N.Y. Town Law § 236 Completion of improvements
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§ 236. Completion of improvements. Upon the completion of any of the improvements authorized by article twelve, article twelve-A, or section eighty-one, two hundred twenty or two hundred twenty-one of this chapter, the town board, engineer, or other official or employee in charg…
N.Y. Town Law § 237 Preparation of assessment-roll for certain improvements
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§ 237. Preparation of assessment-roll for certain improvements. It shall thereupon be the duty of the assessors, or the town board, if the town board shall so elect, to prepare an assessment-roll which shall contain a description of each lot or parcel of land so that the same ma…
N.Y. Town Law § 238 Assessment of property partly in district
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§ 238. Assessment of property partly in district. In all cases where\nreal property is divided by the boundary line of any district, it shall\nbe the duty of the assessors after fixing the valuation of the whole of\nsuch real property as now required by law, to determine what pr…
N.Y. Town Law § 239 Completion of roll and hearing
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§ 239. Completion of roll and hearing. The assessors or the town board, as the case may be, shall file the assessment-roll when completed, with the town clerk and thereupon it shall be the duty of the town board to cause notice to be published at least once in a newspaper publis…
N.Y. Town Law § 24 Terms of office
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§ 24. Terms of office. All elective officers other than town council members, town justices, receivers of taxes and assessors shall hold their respective offices for two years. The terms of office of the town council members first elected after this chapter shall take effect and…
N.Y. Town Law § 24-A Terms of office of elective officers
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§ 24-a. Terms of office of elective officers. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four of this chapter or any other general law, and at least one hundred fifty days prior to any biennial town election, the town board of any town may adopt a resolution to provide …
N.Y. Town Law § 24-B Election of council members and town justices in the town of Pawling
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§ 24-b. Election of council members and town justices in the town of Pawling. Notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-four of this article or any other general or special law, the town board of the town of Pawling in Dutchess county, may by a resolution adopted at least…
N.Y. Town Law § 240 Delivery of roll to collector; warrant for collection
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§ 240. Delivery of roll to collector; warrant for collection. 1. When\nthe assessment roll shall have been finally approved and adopted by the\ntown board, the board shall annex thereto a warrant which shall be\nsigned by the supervisor and countersigned by the town clerk comman…
N.Y. Town Law § 241 Notice by collector or receiver of taxes; return of assessment roll
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§ 241. Notice by collector or receiver of taxes; return of assessment roll. Each town tax collector or receiver of taxes and assessments, upon receiving an assessment roll and warrant, shall forthwith cause notice of the reception thereof to be published at least once in the off…
N.Y. Town Law § 242 Assessments payable in installments
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§ 242. Assessments payable in installments. 1. The supervisor shall present the returned assessment roll to the town board at its next meeting. If obligations shall have been issued to finance the improvement, in whole or in part, the town board shall divide the amount of the un…
N.Y. Town Law § 243 Collection of annual installments of assessments
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§ 243. Collection of annual installments of assessments. The supervisor of the town shall annually transmit to the county legislative body at the meeting thereof at which taxes are levied a statement setting forth a description of each parcel of land liable for the payment of an…
N.Y. Town Law § 244 Correction of assessments
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§ 244. Correction of assessments. When it shall be ascertained to the satisfaction of the said board that any error, omission or mistake has been made in measuring or in entering the frontage or bounds of any lot or in the quantity of any parcel of land held to be especially ben…
N.Y. Town Law § 244-A Apportionment of completed local assessment upon subdivision or sale of part of land affected
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§ 244-a. Apportionment of completed local assessment upon subdivision or sale of part of land affected. 1. At any time after the approval and adoption of an assessment-roll for a district or special improvement, whether pursuant to this chapter or any other statute of general ap…
N.Y. Town Law § 245 Expense of maintenance
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§ 245. Expense of maintenance. After the improvement is constructed and completed, it shall be maintained by the town board and the cost of such maintenance shall be a charge upon the district or parcels of land against which the cost of the improvement was charged and shall be …
N.Y. Town Law § 246 Proceeding to review decision
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§ 246. Proceeding to review decision. Any person interested who shall have appeared before the board and made his objections at any hearing provided for in this statute, and who shall consider himself aggrieved by any decision or action of the board may commence a proceeding, wi…
N.Y. Town Law § 247 Reassessment and apportionment where original assessment and apportionment has been held invalid
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§ 247. Reassessment and apportionment where original assessment and apportionment has been held invalid. In the event that any tax or assessment apportionment assessed or levied upon any property in any town on account of or in behalf of any district or for the construction of a…
N.Y. Town Law § 25 Oaths of office and undertaking
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§ 25. Oaths of office and undertaking. Before he or she enters on the duties of the office, and within thirty days after the commencement of the term of office for which he or she is chosen, every town officer shall take and subscribe before an officer authorized by law to admin…
N.Y. Town Law § 25-A Fingerprints of persons before appointment as town police officers, or as constables possessing powers in criminal matters
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§ 25-a. Fingerprints of persons before appointment as town police officers, or as constables possessing powers in criminal matters. No person shall be appointed or reappointed a member of the police department, or a special police officer, or a constable not limited to powers an…
N.Y. Town Law § 26 Resignation of town officers
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§ 26. Resignation of town officers. Any town officer may resign to the town clerk in the manner provided by section thirty-one of the public officers law.